Please look at my post about what I used, and it works!
It should be in my 'recent posts' on my profile.

Here's the link.

I found Aaron's Sonar MP3 Patch and it works great. I don't have the link but it should be easy enough to find. I found out about it here in this forum. Never had a moments problem with it.

It's freeware by the way.

wruess
Check this thread....
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Sonar-X2-mp3-encoder-problem-and-solution-m2724985.aspx

That looks really interesting.  I've installed it and will give it a spin.  I've never managed to get Lame working in X2 (worked fine in 8.5 though).  No idea why; I've followed the instructions in a number of threads on the forums but it always fails at the very end of the export stage even though the export options are available, so I assume I've set it up correctly(?)

I can't believe people will pay $400 for Sonar, but then whine about forking out $20 for the MP3 encoder.

daveny5
I can't believe people will pay $400 for Sonar, but then whine about forking out $20 for the MP3 encoder.

That's a good point, but I seem to recall comments that the Sonar one isn't all that good.
 
Is it as good as anything out there ?

daveny5
I can't believe people will pay $400 for Sonar, but then whine about forking out $20 for the MP3 encoder.

I can't believe people pay $400 for Sonar, and it doesn't already come with an MP3 encoder.
 
Please let me know which other DAW's charge for this functionality.

Paul P

daveny5
I can't believe people will pay $400 for Sonar, but then whine about forking out $20 for the MP3 encoder.

That's a good point, but I seem to recall comments that the Sonar one isn't all that good.
 
Is it as good as anything out there ?

It is LAME 3.97 or if you grab the update I pointed to above 3.98

I used to use an external MP3 encoder, but a couple of years ago, I finally coughed up the $20 for theirs, and it has worked for me with no issues whatsoever.
 
I found no difference in using that versus my external one, and it is simply built in to the export process now, so I like its ease of use and results.
 
Bob Bone