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How are you recording your music? What sort of sound card? What other equipment?

The English and German versions are the same thing. You just need to reset the Audacity configuration file and it will come up in English. Audacity Preferences are stored in a configuration file called "audacity.cfg" in the Audacity settings folder. The configuration file can be edited wit...

The instructions for installing Lame are here: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Lame_Installation#Windows_Instructions It is important that you follow the instructions to the letter. For a small minority of Audacity 1.2.6 users the problem remains even when following the instructions pre...

apparently, the bitrate can be changed before LAME is evoked In Audacity 1.3 you can select the bitrate by clicking on the "Options" button in the Export dialogue screen. Further to Koz's comments, MP3s always have a short gap at the beginning (limitation of the format). However this is u...

Saving an Audacity project lets you save unfinished work and re-open it later in Audacity exactly as it was, with all edits and recorded/imported tracks preserved. This is a different process from using one of the Export commands in the File Menu. Export creates an audio file like WAV or MP3. Use Ex...

I can't help if I don't know your set-up, and it would be one heck of a coincidence if your set-up is identical to that which I have described.
The thing is that, if it is set up as I described, it will work, so there is obviously some important difference that you are not telling us.

You might have got an answer sooner if you had given enough information in your initial question.

kitkarruthers wrote:it's basically the same.

So you mean it's working now? If not, then which other bits are different?

I've been using Audacity 1.2 for a long time and never had a problem converting to mp3 files until yesterday, So you are saying that you could Export MP3s from Audacity last week but not this week? What has changed between then and now? I've tried every possible download for LAME dll as per the sit...

As I mentioned in my previous post, there is a nice introduction to Pulseaudio in Ubuntu here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578 A few extracts (for those too impatient to read the whole thing) PulseAudio is an advanced sound server which has been included in Ubuntu (i.e. the standard ...