Channel mode (currently Stereo or Joint Stereo).Encoding Speed (with other than constant bit rate encoding).Bit Rate Mode (Variable, Average, Constant or use a Preset).The "Options." button also gives access to more advanced MP3 encoding options as follows: A 128 kbps bit rate takes up about 1 MB of space per minute. A higher bit rate gives you higher quality at the expense of a larger filesize, and vice versa. If that occurs, press "Cancel" and proceed as per the following "All users" section.Īfter installation of lame_enc.dll, click File > Export., then choose MP3 in the "Save as type" dropdown and click the "Options." button to choose bit rate in the "Quality" dropdown. Otherwise, you will see the "Locate Lame" dialog. After completing the Metadata Editor for your ID3 tags (just click OK if you don't want to change the tags), you should see the progress bar for the MP3 export. If you already have it, you can export an MP3 by clicking File > Export, then in the Export File dialog, choose MP3 Files in the Save as type dropdown, and click Save.
Try exporting an MP3 straight away Audacity on Windows will look automatically in your system folders for the LAME encoder. New or inexperienced users are recommended to follow the easy steps in the Simple Installation section and skip the "Advanced options for MP3 encoding" section that follows "Simple Installation". After 2.1.3 is released, add a link to the advice note pointing to the Manual. Then change this page content to be a custom redirect in an advice note with a link to MP3. Gale 07Jan17: I suggest removing links to this page (or adjust them to point to MP3), then cut and paste the entire content of this page into an ednote in MP3 so we can see if anything wants integrating into that page.There may be a case for a stub page to deal with any old links from Forum threads. Note that very few pages link to here from within the Wiki now.The "issues" section should really be dealt with in the Manual>FAQs if they are not already.
If we decide to retain this page then I would certainly link to the Mac>LAME Installation and Windows>LAME Installation in the Manual - and probably similar for the Linux section (but I am not qualified to judge that, so would need advice regarding this).I don't really want to continue with parallel documentation to maintain on this in two different places (that goes against our normal policy which seeks single-source documentation). We have spent some time recently working on improving the material in this in the Manual - to the extent that I now believe the Manual has superior information. Peter 07Jan17: P1 I would really like to deprecate this page once we have released 2.1.3.P2 Placeholder to retain focus - we may yet decide to delete this page in favor of the Manual content.