#Free lame for audacity windows 8.1 how to
The program you are running required this DLL to understand how to convert certain audio file types to the friendlier MP3 format. Programs that heavily depend on this library include the Audacity sound recording studio and Ableton music production Suite. Some of the functionality in this DLL is shared among the more popular Lame.dll version which contains both encoding and decoding functions. You could say that the community of book readers within your computer are the people who live in a village and that Lame_enc.dll is a shared book that can be read by any of them. The project has been run by 3 different developers in the 20+ years since its initial development but was originally created by Kike Cheng.Ī DLL file acts as an efficient way of sharing code between programs, sort of how a library of books is shared by many different people in one community. Since the late 1990s, the Lame MP3 Encoder has been a library that can be used within other programs to process MP3 data for free, as long as it can be switched with an alternative as per the LGPL license. The Lame_enc.dll file is used by the Lame MP3 Encoder to process certain information in relation to your audio file conversion. On this page, I have laid out the information you will need to know to understand what is causing this error as well as the versions of Lame_enc.dll which are sorted by age and type of operating system.