My Lame/Audacity combo not working. What to do?

Factual Questions
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I have Audacity, latest version, 1.2.6, IIRC, and wanted to convert wav to mp3. I downloaded the Lame extension, or whate’er it is, and thought that that would fix me up. No dice. When I click on export as mp3, the ‘you need lame, would you like to search’ window comes up. I click yes. It shows a ‘where is lame dll" or something similar, window with desktop in it. Desktop has Some of my other files, and a file for "Micin.dir’. OK…what do I do now to mp3-ize my music?

Thanks,
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2

Hmmm. . . I use Lame with Cakewalk/Sonar and I’m trying to remember how I installed it. . . I’m not having a lot of luck. . .

I think I ran an installer/setup exe for Lame. . . but, I can’t remember how I associated Lame and Sonar. . . I don’t remember it being a big hassel. . . I don’t think it involved running the VST adapter or anything like that.

Sorry, I’m not much help. Time to starting googling and reading and testing. Good luck.

3

When you get the “Where is Lame.dll?” dialog did you look only on the desktop? I did a search of my computer and found several instances of lame_enc.dll

Just go to Start > Search > All files or Folders and type lame

4

When I used the LAME encoder with Audacity, the quality of the MP3 was really bad. I ended up using a free product called “WAV to MP3 Encoder”. It does only that: converts WAV files to MP3s. I found it to be very useful. Here is the link if you are interested: http://download.cnet.com/WAV-to-MP3-Encoder/3000-2140_4-10060500.html.

Disclaimer: I have absolutely no connection to “WAV to MP3 Encoder” other than as a satisfied user.