Free Tools- LAME for Audacity

LAME is a library that allows some programs to encode MP3 files. LAME is free, but in some countries you may need to pay a license fee in order to legally encode MP3 files. Audacity is a free and open source Audio Editor which allows you to convert ogg to mp3, convert mp3 to ogg, convert vinyls to mp3 or ogg, do any kind of home recording, remove noise, etc.

  To use LAME (or FFmpeg) with Audacity, you can put it anywhere you wantand Audacity will ask you for the location of this file, so you will want to remember where you put it.    
            
http://lame.buanzo.org/

TO DOWNLOAD Lame and FFmpeg for Windows, click links BELOW:


Lame_v3.99.3_for_Windows.exe - (SHA256 SUM here)
ZIP OPTION:
libmp3lame-win-3.99.3.zip
If you need a newer version of Lame, here is v3.99.5 in a ZIP file, known to work with Audacity 2.x.
     
How toI download and install the LAME MP3 encoder

LAME MP3 Encoder :: Software Downloads
How do I download and install the LAME MP3 encoder?
  1. Go to the external LAME download page.
  2. Under "For Audacity on Windows", left-click the link "Lame v3.99.3 for Windows.exe" and save the file anywhere on your computer. Do not right-click the link to the .exe file.
  3. Double-click "Lame v3.99.3 for Windows.exe" to launch it (you can safely ignore any warnings that the "publisher could not be verified").
  4. Follow the "Setup" instructions to install LAME for Audacity. Do not change the offered destination location of "C:\Program Files\Lame for Audacity".
  5. The first time you use the "Export as MP3" command, Audacity will ask for the location of "lame_enc.dll". Navigate to "C:\Program Files\Lame for Audacity", select "lame_enc.dll", then click "Open" and "OK".
  6. If you prefer the Zip option for the LAME download, save the zip file to anywhere on your computer, extract "lame_enc.dll" to any location, then show Audacity where to find it as in Step 5 above.
  7. In case of difficulty, please view our more detailed instructions on the Audacity Wiki.
    8. Mac OS 9 or X
  1. Go to the external LAME download page.
  2. Click to download either "Lame Library v3.98.2 for Audacity on OSX.dmg" or "LameLib-Carbon.sit", according to your operating system.
  3. Double-click the .dmg to extract "Lame Library v3.98.2 for Audacity on OSX.pkg" to Finder, or use Stuffit to extract "LameLib" from the .sit (either of these may happen automatically).
  4. Double-click the .pkg to install "libmp3lame.dylib" in /usr/local/lib/audacity, or save "LameLib" anywhere on your computer.
  5. The first time you use the "Export as MP3" command, Audacity will ask for the location of "libmp3lame.dylib" or "LameLib". Navigate to that location, then open the file and click "OK".
  6. In case of difficulty, please view our more detailed instructions on the Audacity Wiki.
 
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