Talk:LAME MP3

Peter: the Windows desktop is a very poor location to recommend storing Lame. IMHO the desktop is a good place to store shortcuts and temporary documents - and not a place for permanent or semi-permanent files, which should be found a good home somewhere sensible in the user's filing system. We should not really recommend that users store Lame on their desktop.

Gale: You may be right. A file on the desktop is at more risk of deletion, but novice users are comfortable with the Desktop and use it a lot, and the file dialogue they open to do the extraction may well default to opening there. If they get confused, it's easy to find the extracted dll. Generally this advice worked well on -help list as an alternative to having them try to find the Audacity installation folder (or go into System 32 and delete something by accident). In any case we have decided now we will have a simple self extracting LAME installer for Windows users to make things easier, so the instructions for them will change somewhat.

Gale: A forum user thinks we need to improve this page as regards where to look for lame_enc.dll if it already exists on the machine. Can't see much point, given it's easy to download LAME or use system search, even less so if we have a Windows installer for LAME.