Quick export mp3 format

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#1

I’ve been having some trouble using the quick export feature when exporting to mp3. I keep getting this message:

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I am using the Arch linux packaged install on Endeavour OS (kernel 6.19.8-arch1-1 (64-bit), which, as far as I can tell, comes bundled with the necessary libsnd. And ffmpeg seems to be installed as well:

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I can successfully use lame -b320 %f as a post-processing command, and I suppose that’s fine, but it would definitley be convenient to be able to do it from the Quick Export menu.

Any help much appreciated.

#2

Is there an error or warning message in Ardour’s Window > Log?

That message pertains to presets (not export formats).
So perhaps pick a different one, or use empty present, add mp3 as format (tab below the preset select).

#3

Here’s what it says in the log window:

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#4

no warning or error?

how about ls /usr/share/ardour9/export/

that should list available formats incl. mp3:

'Amazon Music.format'         'CD + Ogg_Vorbis + FLAC.preset'   FLAC.preset            'MP3 (standard).format'     'Ring Tone.format'               'WAV (tagged).format'
'Apple Music.format'          'CD only.preset'                 'MP3 (extreme).format'  'Ogg_Vorbis + FLAC.preset'  'Soundcloud and Spotify.format'  'YouTube and Deezer.format'
'BWAV 24bit Export.format'    'CD (Red Book).format'           'MP3 (medium).format'    Ogg_Vorbis.format           Streaming.preset
'BWAV 32float Export.format'  'FLAC 24 bit.format'              mp3.preset              Ogg_Vorbis.preset           wav.preset
#5

Just in case it matters I have to say that the ardour9 sub is nowhere to be seen here (original Ardour9 install from your Download place)

  ls -la /usr/share | grep -i ardo
drwxr-xr-x    5 root root  4096  2 nov.   2022 ardour6
drwxr-xr-x   16 root root  4096  9 déc.  12:00 ardour8
#6

upstream package goes to /opt

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#7

Your original post stated you were using the Arch package.
The standard is distribution packages install into /usr/local and packages unrelated to the distribution install into /opt.

Robin’s suggestion was based on your statement that you are using the distribution package.

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#8

Thanks everyone. Will look into this based on your input and report back.

#9

OK, now that I have had some coffee I think I should qualify that to make sure I don’t confuse anybody.
Binary distribution packages install into the /usr file hierarchy. For example I just checked where my distribution places the ardour package from the repositories, and it installs /usr/bin/ardour9 which is the shell script to launch ardour, and /usr/lib64/ardour9/ardour-9.2.0 as the binary executable, all the ACE plugins are in /usr/lib64/ardour9/LV2.
Note that I am running fedora which uses /usr/lib64 as the system directory for 64 bit builds to distinguish from 32-bit libraries which get installed for compatibility. Not everyone agrees with that convention, I think on Debian based distributions system installed files are always in /usr/lib no matter whether the OS is 32-bit or 64-bit.

The /usr/local directories are traditionally for software that you compile locally and install, so that if you make any changes to the compile configuration you can have the binaries in a distinct location from the location used for distribution provided binary files.

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#10

You are righ,t distibution packages /usr, not /usr/local

#11

Okay, here’s what’s in the folder. I’m wondering if maybe this has happened because I used to have the website package installed previously, then deleted it and replaced it with the distro packaged one?

~]$ ls /usr/share/ardour9/export/
'Amazon Music.format'       'BWAV 32float Export.format'     'CD (Red Book).format'  'MP3 (extreme).format'  'MP3 (standard).format'      Ogg_Vorbis.preset                Streaming.preset      'YouTube and Deezer.format'
'Apple Music.format'        'CD + Ogg_Vorbis + FLAC.preset'  'FLAC 24 bit.format'    'MP3 (medium).format'   'Ogg_Vorbis + FLAC.preset'  'Ring Tone.format'                wav.preset
'BWAV 24bit Export.format'  'CD only.preset'                  FLAC.preset             mp3.preset              Ogg_Vorbis.format          'Soundcloud and Spotify.format'  'WAV (tagged).format'