Andy, I can confirm what Darren says. You need to put a file calle lame_enc.dll into the Goldwave folder to save or convert to mp3. But as for Direct X, I have been able to use Goldwave 4 on a 98 system and now Goldwave 5 on an XP one without problems - some version of Direct X being apparently part of the standard Windows components. On my XP system I see that Direct X 9 is present. Douglas On 8 Oct 2004 at 23:04, Darren Brewer wrote: > Hi Andy > > I've got Goldwave and have been using it for years. I did download a more > up to date version a while ago and don't remember any mention of direct x. > But I did have to download something calle LAME which I think is a kind > of audio Codec (Coder / Decoder) I'm not sure now but without this LAME > plugin you can't encode MP3s. Maybe someone else knows what I'm talking > about. I'll have to investigate further. > > -- Douglas Harrison ** To leave the list, send a message to:- ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq