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Posted by: Alexiaden93 Jul 20 2009, 10:41 PM

Hey guys !

As some of you may have realised by now, I've been quite active on the forums as I've been getting some new guitar/recording equipment, and I need loads of help with it !

The most recent problem is that when I want to render a project in Reaper to MP3, it says "Error: need lame_enc.dll", so I downloaded the file, placed it in Reaper>Plugins, and tried again... Great ! I got an MP3 file, but when I put my cursor over it, it says "0 bytes"...

I'm wondering if anybody knows what's going on ? It worked earlier on for my first recording, but now it just won't work...

Help !

Posted by: Dexxter Jul 20 2009, 11:58 PM

Sorry, can't really help you, I'm not a Reper user.. But maybe you can try reinstalling the program?

Posted by: Alexiaden93 Jul 21 2009, 12:07 AM

Fine


Now I can only render to WAV and AIFF ! :S

OK ignore that... I'm back to the beginning, and it won't work :S

Posted by: tonymiro Jul 21 2009, 12:14 AM

I know there's an issue with the recent LAME enc in XP Alex. (It's ok in Vista but not XP.) There is a fix for it but I'm not sure if it's been released yet.

Posted by: Alexiaden93 Jul 21 2009, 12:21 AM

Hey ! I don't have Vista, though...

Posted by: Fran Jul 21 2009, 12:24 AM

Try with this file, it works for me in XP. (attached)

I place it directly in Reaper folder, not in the plug-in folder. Maybe give both options a try.

Edit: You have to change the xtension of the file to .dll instead of .mp3. The system wouldn't let me upload the .dll file due to a security setting

Posted by: Alexiaden93 Jul 21 2009, 12:26 AM

I can't find your file, man

Posted by: Fran Jul 21 2009, 12:27 AM

It's there now. Make sure to change the extension to .dll instead of .mp3

Posted by: Alexiaden93 Jul 21 2009, 12:31 AM

Still not working

Posted by: Fran Jul 21 2009, 12:33 AM

Have you tried putting it in directly in reaper folder and not in the plug-in folder?

It works just fine on both vista & XP laptops, as well as an older XP desktop PC I have.

Posted by: jdriver Jul 21 2009, 12:37 AM

Fran: Off topic, but do you have any good patches you've come up with for the Pandora? I can't seem to come up with any I like for distortion or crunch tones. I'm talking about for recording and playing thru headphones?

If you have any maybe you could list them just a text grid of the parameters. I have several I like for just messing around, but no good "tube amp blues."

Posted by: Alexiaden93 Jul 21 2009, 12:38 AM

Yes, and it isn't working

Posted by: UncleSkillet Jul 21 2009, 12:41 AM

Try this! I'm not sure what version of the lame_enc.dll ypur using or where you got it form.
I have XP and this the one I have and it works fine.

 Copy_of_lame_enc.txt ( 102K ) : 195


Save the attachment and rename it to lame_enc.zip. Then open it and put the file in the reaper directory if I remember right. Its been a while. You might want to rename you other one to Old_lame_enc.dll before you copy this one to where it goes. Hope it helps. Try a reboot also once you get the file copied over.

I noticed you have another post going about rendering mp3 and quality. Here is a screen shot of the settings I use and they seem to work fine.

Posted by: Fran Jul 21 2009, 12:41 AM

I'm afraid I don't, I'm all focused on Pod X3 since I got it last Christmas. I remember I managed to get a Muris like sound following his settings, I found them somehwere in the gear section or maybe in his forum. But it wasn't a tube blues sound anyway...

I also managed to get some Trond Vold & Maiden settings, but nothing really bluesy. All those tones are within the unit, which I don't have with me right now as I'm on vacation at my gf's and only brought the X3 & strat along.

Sorry I can't be of much help

Posted by: Alexiaden93 Jul 21 2009, 08:47 AM

Thanks, but it still isn't working...

I downloaded another lame_enc.dll afterwards, and it rendered... File size "0 bytes"... Anyone got any other ideas ?

Even more irritating: I uninstalled my Reaper, downloaded another version, installed, added lame_enc.dll to the Reaper directory... Same as before !

Posted by: Alexiaden93 Jul 21 2009, 09:37 AM

OK guys, here's a picture of the situation...

Thank you to all my friends ! The problem is now solved ! I set the rendering settings to 41000 kHz instead of 8000 kHz, and it's now working perfectly !

Posted by: Jerry Arcidiacono Jul 21 2009, 09:40 AM

Fixed?

Posted by: Alexiaden93 Jul 21 2009, 11:41 AM

You bet ! Thanks a lot Jerry ! As a reward, I'll see if I can do one or two of your lessons for the REC...