Hey, I bought a USB condenser mic, which came with SONAR LE. It was working fine until today when I tried to export my song into mp3 and a message pops up saying, 'The MP3 encoder must be unlocked before use. Please visit http://www.cakewalk.com to upgrade a previous encoder, or to purchase a new encoder.' This doesn't make sense, because I bought the USB condenser mic which came with the CD, I didn't buy a demo version. Does it just run out after 30 days even if it is the real version? What can I do? Is buying it all I can do?

I can't believe that when you buy Sonar 8 Producer version, it comes with only a 30 day trial of the mp3 encoder. then you can no longer export any projects as mp3's. i think that's a bunch of crap! So anyway, i went to cakewalks web page, paid 19.00 bucks to get it unlocked for unlimited use, and saved the executible. i installed it on my system, and it appeared to have installed fine, no errors etc. but when i try to export a file as a mp3 i'm still getting the error that tells me that it need to be unlocked. i've gone back over it several times, back to the web page to see if i'm missing anything etc. i can't find anything? anyone have this problem before? WTH?!
JasonBird