Audacity Forum

When I go to convert to mp3 it reads cannot open encoding library and all links lead to a pay situation from winrar...try it...you will see

Winrar charges 29.00...do I have to pay that to get Lame?

It does not work either...it appears that WinRare charges 29.00 fee to get the Lame encoder...any other ideas?

Lame mp3 was free at one time and I had it on my computer but some how it is gone...I want to convert my songs created in Audacity to mp3's but cannot find a free lame anywhere...does anyone know how I can find one...every search has come up with a purchase of winrare or something like that...any id...

I solved it by just recording the signal at a lower input level, and then amplifying it in the digital domain. I found that amplification of about 14 dB did no harm to the signal, which compared very well with the original analog sound . What is the digital domain...do you mean the effects area?......

Well maybe thats right...I do have a level knob on the mix board...seems though that the record level should be controlled by the program...maybe your right and the mixing board takes over that duty

I'm using windows XP...2nd question about usb...not sure I know...I'm useing Behringer Mixer that goes into usb port in back of computer...Yamaha sound card...and usb audio codec are the choices for recording......like right now as I turn on a new use of Audacity the recording volume slider works......

I cannot get the recording slider to stay where I put it...it jumps back to zero...if I finish a track where I got the slider to stay,then I can't get it to work again...is there a setting that is needed?...That slider has a mind of it's own... someone else told me they had the same problem and neve...