mp3 encoding with out_lame and Winamp

This is a pretty short one, here goes. So I tried re-encoding some .flac music I had to .mp3 today, using a great winamp plugin called out_lame (you can find it here). It's really straight forward to set up; configure your output folder, select out_lame as the output plugin and just play your songs, then watch as they (rather quickly) get converted to mp3. Unfortunately for me Winamp would crash less than a second after starting the process every time I tried this. In the end, it looks like it's because Winamp needs some pretty quick access to the file, and I had been streaming it from my fileserver. I assume trying to re-encode music from anywhere other than a local disk would cause similar problems so there's today's solution: make sure the files you're re-encoding are stored on a local disk.