e are a couple of problems which make using LAME a little more tricky than
you might hope for if you're from a VB background.  The first is that LAME is
distributed as C source code only, although the code includes the source needed
to build a DLL.  This is partly for legal reasons, as using any MP3 encoding
technology in a piece of software may require a 
<a href="http://lame.sourceforge.net/links.html#patents">patent licence</a> in
some countries.  Assuming you have access to VC++, however, building the f