Hi Douglas. Thanks for your advice. I managed to sort the mp3 difficulty by eventually downloading lamewin32.exe. I'm confused about the Direct X thing however, I downloaded version 9 from Microsof but still, when I attempt to select direct x from the plug in menue of goldwave, I am told that no compatible direct x audio plug ins are available. I think, that despite this goldwave will work okay, but why have this option? will goldwave work better with the direct x plug in selected or what? Thanks again for your advise. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Harrison" <harrisondf@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 6:52 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: direct x problem > 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 ** 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