Hello everybody !


I have downloaded the latest Monkey's Audio binary package (4.06) from the official website and installed it.

I wanted to try the Convert Mode with LAME as the output coder (to convert .ape files to .mp3 files), but, after copying lame.exe and lame_enc.dll in the install directory and the "External" directory of Monkey's Audio, Monkey's Audio.exe doesn't seem to see it. In the Mode > Compression > External menu, only Monkey's Audio (External) appears.

I've tried with LAME 3.96.1, 3.97, 3.98.2, and still got no result.


However, I managed to force LAME encoding by renaming lame.exe to MAC.EXE, but if I do this, the settings you can add to the command line in Monkey's Audio.exe don't apply.


If anybody has an idea ...


Thanks in advance.

I'm afraid that these functions (converting to mp3) were available in version 3.99 and it seems they are not available in 4.06.
BTW, encoder in version 4.06 itself is calling 4.05 ...

In folder "External" there is file MAC.apx, looks like kind of script. I've copied it to the same folder renaming to LAME.apx, modified line <General>
to <Name>LAME (external)</Name> and now I have under external also LAME (external). Probably modifying all other lines related to description and compression you can get converting to mp3 using LAME working properly.

Use foobar2000. Configure the converter to use the command line encoder for LAME (lame.exe) and download the APE decoder for foobar2000. Done.