About LAME MP3 Encoder

The LAME Project

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LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL.

LAME development started around mid-1998. Mike Cheng started it as a patch against the 8hz-MP3 encoder sources. After some quality concerns raised by others, he decided to start from scratch based on the dist10 sources. His goal was only to speed up the dist10 sources, and leave its quality untouched. That branch (a patch against the reference sources) became Lame 2.0, and only on Lame 3.81 did we replaced of all dist10 code, making LAME no more only a patch.

The project quickly became a team project. Mike Cheng eventually left leadership and started working on tooLame, an MP2 encoder. Mark Taylor became leader and started pursuing increased quality in addition to better speed. He can be considered the initiator of the LAME project in its current form. He released version 3.0 featuring gpsycho, a new psychoacoustic model he developed.

In early 2003 Mark left project leadership, and since then the project has been lead through the cooperation of the active developers (currently 4 individuals).

Today, LAME is considered the best MP3 encoder at mid-high bitrates and at VBR, mostly thanks to the dedicated work of its developers and the open source licensing model that allowed the project to tap into engineering resources from all around the world. Both quality and speed improvements are still happening, probably making LAME the only MP3 encoder still being actively developed.

These files are in the Zip format. Either one should automatically extract if you download it with Safari, or if you double-click it in the Finder.

LAME is a library that allows some programs to encode MP3 files. For more information about LAME in general, click here. LAME is free, but in some countries you may need to pay a license fee in order to legally encode MP3 files.

Once you have unzipped the archive, you will have a file called lame_enc.dll, LameLib or libmp3lame.dylib. To use it with Audacity, you can put it anywhere you want, but the first time you want to export an MP3 file, Audacity will ask you for the location of this file, so you'll want to remember where you put it.

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For Audacity on Windows: Lame_v3.98.2_for_Audacity_on_Windows.exe Please support this download server. Any donation is HIGHL appreciated. (NOT required to download lame, lame is free) ZIP OPTION: libmp3lame-win-3.98.2.zip (Issues? Some help HERE) FFMpeg Binary for Windows (THIS IS NOT LAME!): FFmpeg_2009_01_08_for_Audacity_on_Windows.exe	FREE FAMOUS SONG LYRICS - Do you need the lyrics for a song? Just search for them in this wonderful site. Just click here! Subtítulos de Series y Películas - Rápido, fácil, sin registración!
For Audacity 1.3.3 or later on Mac OS X (Intel or PPC), or Audacity 1.2.5 on Mac OS X (Intel): Lame_Library_v3.98.2_for_Audacity_on_OSX.dmg FFMpeg Binary for the MAC (THIS IS NOT LAME!): FFmpeg (2008/12/13/OSX DMG)	Check out some excellent Mailing List Archives (Newborn ones!) Do you like Cooking? GREAT FREE RECIPES HERE
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