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I have a few Windows XP machines that i am trying to get Audacity set up on with mp3 encoding capabilities for doing podcasting. I installed Audacity and the LAME encoder under the local administrator account on the computer. opened Audacity and pointed it to the LAME dll file. It showed that LAME 3.97 was loaded. Beautiful.

So then i logged out of the Administrator account and logged into a limited access Student account and launched Audacity. It was not showing the encoder loaded, so i went through the same process of pointing the application to the LAME dll file. when i click OK it goes back to the audacity preference page and it shows that it does not have the library loaded. I've tried it over and over and it wont work.

So i went back into the administrator account and set the folder permissions for the c:Program FilesAudacity folder to be modify for everyone. went back into the student account and it still will not load the LAME library.

So just to test it, i made the student account a local administrator on the machine, logged in to the student account, and it loaded the DLL just fine. Logged back out, removed local administrator permissions for the student account, logged back into the student account, launched Audacity, and the library was back to being not found.

I'm at a loss here. any guidance would be so greatly appreciated!

That's close to the line I use when I want to clear a room of Systems Administrators. "I'm on a linux machine and I'm having sound problems." Really. It's better than a fire drill--or a Krispy Kreme call.

<<<I'm at a loss here. any guidance would be so greatly appreciated!>>>

Windows "everyone" account isn't what you think it is. Go back into permissions and assign access permissions to all your users by name.

You might also need to do the same thing with the folder structure above the file. If Audacity starts digging down the file structure and hits one it can't go past, you die.

I wonder if there isn't a common folder somewhere that you can park the lame.dll that all the users can get to it.

Koz