So, I've used reaper before and never had this problem, even using the trial version, which I'm using now. When I try to render a project to mp3 ,a box comes up that says I have to download lame, and it gives you a link. I download it what seems successfully, but then when i go back to try and render again, the same box just keeps popping up. No matter how many times i try to download lame, it wont let me do shit. Anybody ever have this problem? Any advice?The wav. files I'm rendering won't play either. Keep in mind I'm using a newly purchased hp p.c. that was previously used. Every function of the p.c. seems to be completely normal though, and it's no more than a year or so old. This is mad frustrating, any help would be appreciated, thanks. Peace.

I didn't have the wav playing problem, but I did have the mp3 exporting problem. I ended up just rendering to wav and using dbpoweramp to convert to mp3. No matter what version of lame or using Reaper's instructions, it has never worked.

Ditto, I don't render to mp3 with reaper either. I just export as WAV and render it in mp3 format with Audacity.

I was planning on doing something simmilar, but the wav.s won't play. I don't get it. Thanks though.

you have to put the lame encoder dll into the plugins directory for reaper, or tell reaper where the lame encoder dll is.

Any way you can tell me how to to that exactly? I'd really appreciate it, thanks.

you need to find out what folder reaper expects the file to be in and then put the file in that folder.