Which version of LAME dll?

[edwinn]

Gents,

Really like Audacity and use it a lot!! and have worked around any issues with it (Beta 2.1.3) so far.

Today I see an old screen-cap of RazorLame with the VBR histogram display. and remember how kool it was burning a cue of WAV files.


Anyway, I go looking for LAME dll files this morning an find THREE versions out there, of various file sizes.

* lame-3.98.2-win - (254kB)
* lame-win-3.99.3 - (422kB)
* lame_v3.99.5 - (721kB)
* libmp3lame-3.99.5 x86 - (721kB)
* libmp3lame-3.99.5 x64 - (910kB)


As recommended I'm using v3.99.3 with Audacity, and know this isn't a LAME or encoder shell forum.

What about pointing Audacity to a folder with the x64 DLL? Any performance boost? or it will not work? or is this a dumb question?


Thanks,

-Ed

[Gale Andrews]

Audacity has a strict requirement that dynamically loaded binaries of LAME include sufficient "symbols" for optimal MP3 encoding. Audacity will refuse most arbitrary lame_enc.dll's that you can find online but will accept most libmp3lame.dll's (you can rename such a DLL to lame_enc.dll if you want).

You can use a 64-bit DLL but Audacity is a 32-bit application on Windows and you may not find much speed boost.


Gale

[edwinn]

Audacity will refuse most arbitrary lame_enc.dll's that you can find online but will accept most libmp3lame.dll's (you can rename such a DLL to lame_enc.dll if you want). You can use a 64-bit DLL but Audacity is a 32-bit application on Windows and you may not find much speed boost.

Thanks for the great reply. Is it ok to post that old screen-cap? from about 12 years ago?

V_2_--vbr-new.gif (19.92 KiB) Viewed 622 times

Seems LAME dll is obscure today, and mostly (or only) source code is available from SF.


-Ed