Audacity Forum

I haven,t been idle on this post. Yesterday, i was recording some cassettes and exporting them as ".WAV" files to my exclusively music partition on my computer. I was then using a trial version of a third part music converter "Swift". I was able to convert the files to MP3s and left them in the same partition folder "FMusic" and created a sub-directory "cassettes". I then went into WMP11 and under options i activated the search for music files that were not in the library and to add them. It found all my recordings and transferred them to the library and i was able to find them and listen to them and add one to a 'playlist'. Today, i tried the same 'method' using Audacity. I recorded a cassette and then went to "File>Export as Mp3 and 'Save' in "FMusic". I filled in the box "Edit Metadata" and saved the metadata. It then exported the file as Mp3 and it went into "FMusic". I didn,t 'Save' changes before closing. I then repeated the steps of yesterday of having WMP search for music files not in the library and it found the file and inserted it into the library and i was able to see it and play it. So, for now, i can at least transfer these cassettes into Mp3s and get them onto my hard drive and into the WMP library. Since i want to end up being able to add items to playlists and transfer them to an Mp3 player, i hope i,m at least half-way there. Thanks very much for your help. p.s. it looks like i will have no DRM problems unless that comes about when i start transferring files or tracks to an Mp3 player. After all, these were all store bot cassettes or compilations made from them. Thanks again.

You should not encounter any DRM problems if all you are doing is playing and recording - it's only if you try to make digitalcopies that the DRM intervenes.

(The only exception being that if you have a CD with DRM that won't play on a PC or cannot be ripped. But this can be got round by playing it on a conventional CD deck/portable and recording in Audacity).

WC

Happy to hear all is working well for you
Now I am curious, what was the thing that helped you with lame_enc.dll?
I am curious whether I guess(ed) properly?

I beleive it was inserting the "Lame library" and also the mention in one of the posts that i cld bypass "Lame" in exporting files, or, bearing in mind that i for now just wanted to get these files (particularly the compilations) onto my hard drive and was not for now concerned about editing etc. so i went for the direct "Export as Mp3" method.