LAME mp3-encoder was designed as an open-source application for many years and now it's the best mp3-encoder ever!
LAME gives you the best possible quality/compression, provides lots of function and works very fast. The original LAME mp3-encoder is aviable from the official homepage (www.mp3dev.org), but it's only aviable as a console-application. Such console-applications are very flexible, but most users prefer to work with GUI (graphical user interface) applications.
LameXP is a GUI for the LAME mp3-encoder, that makes it much more comfortable to use LAME. Using LameXP is very easy, because the user-interface has been desingned as simple as possible and it uses the new WindowsXP style.
Note: Some antivirus and antispyware programs flag LameXP as being infected/malware, although the application is perfectly safe and does not pose a threat to your system. This is called a 'false positive'. The term false positive is used when antivirus software wrongly classifies an innocuous ( inoffensive ) file as a virus. The incorrect detection may be due to heuristics or to an incorrect virus signature in a database. [Similar problems can occur with antitrojan or antispyware software.]
Here are some key features of "LameXP":
· Creates MP3 (MPEG 1.0 Audio-Layer III) files
· Provides a graphical user-interface for WindowsXP
· Provides the highest possible MP3 quality/compression-rate
· Supports PCM Wave-Audio files, MP3 files and raw PCM files
· Supports bitrate-based and quality-based compression
· Supports variable bitrate MP3 files and avarge bitrate encoding
· Supports Mono, Stereo, Joint Stereo and Dual Mono
· Supports ID3 Tags (ID3v1 and ID3v2)
· Supports Resampling and Stereo/Mono Downmixing
· Supports various encoder quality/speed modes
Limitations:
· LameXP
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Updated LAME encoder to v3.98.2 (2009-09-26), compiled with ICL 11.1.046
· Updated FLAC encoder to v1.2.1b (2009-10-01), compiled with ICL 11.1.046
· Updated MediaInfo to v0.7.22 (2009-09-25), using statically linked build (MSVC 9.0)
· Updated AC3Filter Tools to v0.31b (2009-10-01)
· Updated TAK decoder to v1.1.2 (2009-07-27)
· Updated mpg123 decoder to v1.9.1 (2009-10-09)
· Updated language files (big "thank you" to all contributors !!!)
· Updated the Splash screen and modified the sound that plays on very first launch
· Updated JEDI-VCL from v3.34 to v3.38 (2009-08-27)
