Re: LAME question

["Mark Harrison \(Yahoo!\)" <mph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)" <haweste@xxxxxxx>
>
> It's actually about LAME (http://lame.sourceforge.net/), but
is probably a
bit of a lame question too . . .
>
> Following Mark H's suggestion, I've got myself a copy of Exact Audio
Copy
(http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) and
am planning to use LAME as the encoder,
but what do I have to do with LAME ? Do I just download it, stick it in a
directory and point EAC to it ?

Yup.

> EAC say's I need to install LAME, the LAME site above offers me
"source
files". I'm a bit new to this, so do I need to compile anything ?

On the LAME site, click on "using LAME", then "software
which uses LAME",
then scroll down about 3 screenfulls, and there's a whole bunch of sites
that have a Windows binary for you to download.

This will take you to a whole bunch of options including
http://mitiok.cjb.net/ which seems to
have the latest stable version ready
to download. Actually, you'll get a zip full of stuff like documentation,
but you just need to extract lame.exe from that.

[RANT: Linux users tend to download source, Windows users tend to download
executables? Why can't site owners realise this and make it easy to get
what
you need?]

M.



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