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Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Audacity 2.1.3 .exe
Windows 10

I would like to use Lame and have not been successful.
I have downloaded it per instructions and when I try to open it all I get is a quick flash on the screen.
All trouble shooting suggestions have been tried with zero results.
Obviously I’m doing something wrong but what is it?

Dave

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Why are you installing Lame?

Are you getting it from here (scroll down)?

http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/

Will it let you install FFMpeg? They have different jobs, but installing both is harmless. I’m wondering if either worked.

Koz

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So that I can make mp3. Should I not be doing this?
No I didn’t use that link. I used the one Audacity suggested. I’ll give it a try.

Dave

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Should I not be doing this?

You should. And we expect it to work. It’s also a terrific idea to get Audacity from that link, too. Because it’s open source, there are a lot of Audacity offerings and some work better than others.

Koz

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As a (temporary?) work-around you can export to WAV or FLAC and use a 3rd-party MP3 encoder. I’ve been using [u]TAudioConverter[/u] if I just need to make MP3s without any editing. Once its configured for MP3 and your preferred settings, it’s just drag, drop, and click, and you can encode a batch of MP3s at once.

In the past I’ve used [u]LameDrop[/u], or there are other free MP3 encoders.

I have downloaded it per instructions and when I try to open it all I get is a quick flash on the screen.

What do you mean “open”? Does that happen when you try to install LAME by double-clicking [u]Lame_v3.99.3_for_Windows.exe[/u] ?