Mp3 Encoder ?

They charge extra for this I think it is like $20 bucks. Don't ask me why. I think it is a licensing issue. You can buy it from the cakewalk store.
 
You can export to a wave and you have other export types for sound except this the MP3.

jimmitch


Wow hard to believe you have to pay extra for mp3 encoder.In a four hundred dollar program.I like to post some of my mixes and most sites want mp3.

There are threads here that tell you how to use the lame mp3 encoder. Works very well-maybe search using those words.

LOL This matter comes up a lot. :)

Does this mean you have to pay AGAIN if you have the encoder for 8.5.3?  Or can you just used that? (I need to check if I have the 64bit version too)

The best and most widely MP3 encoder on the market today and no one mentionned it. USE THE LAME ENCODER

The LAME encoder is FREE and even Scott R. Garrigus, or was it Craig Anderton, well one of them wrote an article on how to configure Sonar to use the Lame MP3 encoder. Also, when you upgrade, from an earlier version of Sonar and allow Sonar to copy its settings, the MP3 settings are copied to the next version as well.

Follow these directions:

If you don't want to unlock(buy) the cakewalk mp3 encoder, you can invoke the Lame mp3 encoder directly from SONAR 8. With this you don't need to first export to wav and then encode to mp3. Remember that the Lame mp3 encoder is high quality, open source and free.


Instructions:
Open SONAR 8 and go to Tools -> External Encoder Configuration utility
In the Friendly Name Field write: Lame Mp3 Encoder.
In the Extension field write: .mp3.
In the Description field write whatever you want.
In the Path field write the path where the Lame encoder is located. That is where lame.exe and lame_enc.dll are located. I keep my Lame encoder in my C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Utilities\Lame Folder or (copy and past the extracted zip file to your Sonar shared utilities folder and then when you have to perform this step, click the browse button to find the location.
In the Command Line field write: lame -b 192 -m j %I %O
Press Save button.
Uncheck Keep Wave File.

This will export to a 192Kbps, joint stereo mp3 file. If you want 128Kbps, replace 192 with 128
in the Command Line field. The next time you click on File->Export->Audio in SONAR 8 you'll
find 'Lame mp3 encoder' as a type of audio.

Here is the link for the Lame mp3 encoder

http://www.commentcamarch...lecharger-3673536-lame

There are some external MP3 encoder profiles supplied with X1, including for LAME. You'll find them as part of the 02_SONAR_X1_Producer.part1.exe, and part 2, download files. Once they have been decompressed to a new folder, they are here:

\SONAR X1 Setup Files\Utilities\External Encoder Profiles 

It includes files such as:

LAME MP3 Very High Quality Stereo.reg
LAME MP3 Medium Quality Joint Stereo.reg
FLAC High Quality.reg
Ogg Vorbis Standard Quality.reg
(and quite a few more)

There are no instructions as far as I can tell though!

For those who don't know, .reg files are simply text files that contain registry settings. To add them to your registry, all you have to do is double-click them in Windows Explorer. A quick look at the high quality LAME file in Notepad shows this:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CakewalkExtAudioEncoders\{AF1830F5-FD74-4AA3-8797-FE6B4A19350C}]
"Name"="LAME MP3 Very High Quality Stereo"
"Description"="LAME MP3 Very High Quality Stereo"
"Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Cakewalk\\Shared Utilities\\External audio Encoders\\LAME"
"Extension"=".mp3"
"CommandLine"="lame %I -b 128 -m s -h -c -V 1 -B 320 %O"
"InProcess"=dword:00000000
"KeepWaveFile"=dword:00000000

Clearly you will also need to install LAME to the following folder before it will work:

C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Utilities\External audio Encoders\LAME

Of course, you could just edit the path in the .reg file (before double-clicking it to add it to your registry), if you want to install LAME somewhere else. Be sure to use double backslashes, as shown above, for the new path if you do though.

HTH.
 
[Edit: Minor adjustments for accuracy.]

JohnCr




Google "Aaron's Sonar MP3 Encoder Patch". You should download V2 (32bit & 64bit). It's basically a patch that adds registery keys and it uses the free Lame encoder. So it's free.

Downloaded.. Thanks man,

It is here http://www.store.cakewalk.com/b2cgbp/category.aspx?categoryID=46

Oh, Shambler, you beat me to it.

I too never understood why an MP3 encoder was not part of Sonar.

Is there some legal thing-or-other that stops CW from including it as part of the Sonar package?
Just curious.

Glad to be of help. :)

I paid for the MP3 Activation, too. I'm satisfied because I like the graphical user interface of the Cakewalk MP3 Encoder, as it is so convenient to choose any bitrate or add MP3 ID info without having to leave SONAR.

bitman


We still have no built in MP3 export that's free!?

What decade do they think this is!?
Why can free Audacity do it and Sonar cant!

I assume Audacity is a free product?  I think that's the difference.  May apps don't include MP3 encoders because of licencing restrictions.  I tried to rip a CD in MediaMonkey yesterday and got a similar message.  If only Ogg was common - sigh...

thanks lapieuvre, that works great.

permanent solution:
(yes dberriman this one will work) :)
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?high=&m=2268643
cheers
Aaron

chuckebaby


can some list the daws out there that are including an mp3 liecence..and please dont say soundforge 10

Hi Charlie-

Of the two other DAWs I own, FL Studio includes an encoder and REAPER doesn't.

-Susan