"my re-installation of Win Media Center/player (most likely when updates included)"

^^ I think this.
For fraunhofer your l3codecp may have got overwritten with generic Windows one .. can you retrieve the good one from old computer? May be able to just copy over the good version between systems. Windows just uses it if it is there. No checking as far as I have experienced.

For Lame, maybe Windows no longer has that mp3 registry entry .. have you tried to uninstall and re-install Lame?

Last edited by rharv; 06/09/16 12:54 PM.

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