Why isn't sox able to convert to mp3?

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Published on 2011-02-17T10:16:20Z Indexed on 2011/02/17 15:27 UTC
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I installed Sox, i installed lame-398, but sox is not able to convert any file to mp3. It fails with the messages:

./../sox FAIL util: Unable to load LAME encoder library (libmp3lame).
./../sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `funktech.mp3':  

How can i check if lame has been installed correct? How can i get sox to find the mp3Library?

edit: I did not install sox at all, it works without installing directly from the commandline. Lame was installed by following the instructions on their site:

./configure
make
make install

which results in the following files being found in /usr/local/lib/ : libmp3lame.dylib, libmp3lame.la, libmp3lame.a Maybe symlinking libmp3lame.la, which is marked as executable, to /usr/bin would help?

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