LOL!!!
Sorry... couldn't resist... I mean... software doesnt "degrade"...

It would be quite better to see what *you* broke.. but that's probably more related to Foobar, than Lame.

LOL... well... doesn't matter anyway... the ole stuff is ok...

he was asking you to change 1 program at a time. First go back with LAME b2, for example, if it works, is LAME final, if not is foobar. Try old foobar with new lame, if it works, you doubel confimed is foobar. etc.

well... my vote is for lame that broke... coz it first happened when I upgraded lame, strange thing is that I could convert 3 albums with this new version, but the day after (after a reboot?) it just stopped working, then I upgraded to foobar2k thinking that it would be "the latest and the more compatible" version to that. Didn't work either, then I went back with both apps.

I think that we'll need more information in order to help you, because I have used LAME 3.97 in conjunction with foobar2000 0.9.4 and any conversion works fine. I'm not saying that you don't have a problem; I just don't think that LAME has "expired".

Yes, there must be something wrong, as it works perfectly fine for me.

ok, i uninstalled the apps. and clean installed them again and now works.... the first time I did a install over the existing files and folders (like an upgrade...) and i think it was not workig coz of that...