Can get by with 99 times?

Well....I tried....I really did !!

But I just can't get it to work.....so...please help :)

I followed Adams tutorial (3 times)

The first time I got nothing....so I read through the thread until I found the post from Surealtime concerning Vista administrator permission...
I tried that and still got nothing...

So I backed up and deleted Lame and deleted my saved export config and started over fresh...

This time I finally got it...but....after watching the bar graph scroll along indicating the mixdown of the file I get a pop-up that says "LAME MP3 failed to launch" ..I click OK...then another pop-up says "Warning. The external encoder returned an error code. The file may not have encoded properly"

I then went back through the whole process again from scratch to be sure I hadn't missed anything and I think I've done it correctly.

I'm in need of some expert advice please :)

I'm using Producer 8 on a HP dv9700 laptop running Vista

Thanks in advance for your help

Rob

Honest_Al

Surely it should read Patronizing_Al

Pardon my ignorance, and this question is kind of directed to RodC. I found those files on the S8PE installation disk, but what exactly do you do with them?

msr

Sorry for the lack of detail, but I am referring to the .reg files for the LAME encoder.

The Cakewalk External Audio Encoder Setup doesn't seem to be working for me.
I have downloaded the lame dll and exe files and copied them to:
C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Plugins\Lame


Started the External Audio Encoder utility and filled in all the fields:

friendly name = Lame
extension = .mp3
Description = lame
path = C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Plugins\Lame
command line = 

Then I click "save"

The "Friendly name" disappears.  Nothing in the drop-down for "Friendly Name."
Click "close."

Go to File => Export => Audio and check the "Files of type" drop-down list, and Lame does not appear.  The old MP3 entry always brings up the "you need to activate..." message.

I'm running Sonar 8 PE 64-bit.  Do I need a different version of the free lame encoder? I looked for a 64-bit version, and don't see it.

According to the Sonar online manual, I should be able to see and edit my external encoder configuration using the  Cakewalk External Audio Encoder Setup utility, but when I re-open it I don't see any of the configurations that I've tried to create.  So I'm guessing that the configuration utility isn't saving anything.

I would go the easy route and simply activate the Cakewalk encoder, since I own a license for CWPA 9, but my CWPA 9 install disk got broken a couple of years ago... and the Cakewalk Encoder activation utility wants to see the media... apparently a serial number isn't enough proof.

Anybody got a cure for this pain in the ass?

I attempted to do what the first post says in LE - I'm not sure if it would work in LE, but when I click export - audio, mp3 is one of the choices in the window that opens. I don't know where the files I tried to make went, but found them in recently used. They won't play though, at least not in windows media player.

I can't really understand from the discussion back and forth what to put in the place of 48. I put 192. Was that wrong?

Is a person that has no clue what they are doing better off exporting as a wav., downloading audacity and lame for audacity, and converting there? From something someone wrote, this seemed possible... Is that a difficult process, and does it take away from quality in any way?.. I don't see any point in having audacity taking up space if it will work in LE, so if I just need to change that 192 to something else, please do tell what that is.. :) (I'm recording acoustic guitar, voice.. 44.1 sample rate, if that makes any difference)

Thanks :) 

Is a person that has no clue what they are doing better off exporting as a wav., downloading audacity and lame for audacity, and converting there? From something someone wrote, this seemed possible... Is that a difficult process, and does it take away from quality in any way?.. I don't see any point in having audacity taking up space if it will work in LE, so if I just need to change that 192 to something else, please do tell what that is.. :) (I'm recording acoustic guitar, voice.. 44.1 sample rate, if that makes any difference)

Personally I prefer to export the audio as a WAV file, and then handle the MP3 conversion outside of Sonar.  There are a few benefits to doing this...


Firstly, it's (often) much quicker to experiment with different MP3 settings on an already-exported WAV file, than it is to have Sonar re-render the audio AND do the mp3 conversion in one go for each set of MP3 settings you want to try.   And even if when not experimenting, I often find the need to do multiple different conversions.


Secondly I prefer to use all the features of MP3 encoding in a utility that's explicitly and only designed for the job.  And since I might be encoding WAV files that were not generated by Sonar, it maintains a level of consistency in approach when encoding to MP3.


Having said that, I think it's great that the Op shared the instructions as it's a useful thing to know how to do...

wish I could get it to install.. I keep getting an error message

mysonar8


wish I could get it to install.. I keep getting an error message

well, you can't get help just by complaining.  what is the error message?  what exact steps are you using?  what version of lame are you using?  are you trying to use the lame executable or the raw code?  we'll have to have details to help you instead of just "wish I could get it to install."

Its not that hard--

1. Copy the Lame files to:
   C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Utilities\External audio Encoders\LAME
2. In the menus -> Tools  -> External Audio Encoder Setup
3. CLICK THE IMPORT BUTTON
4. Navigate to your CD Cake install cd rom:
   (Noted in my earlier post)
   DVD: \\Utilities\External Encoder Profiles
   You should see some .reg files you can import:
   LAME MP3 320 CBR.reg
   LAME MP3 High Quality Stereo.reg
   LAME MP3 Low Quality Mono Voice.reg
   LAME MP3 Medium Quality Joint Stereo.reg
   LAME MP3 Very High Quality Stereo.reg
   Importing these will fill in all the blanks, along with some switch options you may not think of.
   There are some in there for FLAC, Monkey's and Ogg Vorbis as well. I assume these are some settings the Cake folks came up with.