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<h3><a name="OpenSource">Free (open source) software which supports or uses
LAME:</a></h3>
<p><b> <a name="Multiplatform">Multiplatform:</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/">FFmpeg</a> An awesome collection of
codecs (libavcodec) for pretty much all popular audio and video formats.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda/">andromeda</a> (PHP and ASP)
Dynamically presents collections of mp3s as streaming web sites.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.getid3.org">getID3()</a> (PHP) PHP4 script that
extracts useful information from MP3s & other multimedia file formats.
Reads Lame tags.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://rip.sourceforge.net">rip</a> (Perl) Script for ripping
and encoding.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.videolan.org">VideoLAN</a> A powerful multimedia
player and streaming solution for Win32, Linux, MacOS, BeOS...
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</a> Open source
multiplatform audio editor.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://jtagger.sourceforge.net/jripper/">jRipper</a> (Java) CD
ripper frontend.
</li>
<li>
<a
href="http://www.tradebit.com/layouts/featured-technology.php">Tradebit</a>
is a file hosting service that offers server-side MP3 encoding with LAME.
</li>
</ul>
<p><b> <a name="Posix">Posix (Linux, MacOS X, BSD, Solaris, etc.):
</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.k3b.org/">k3b</a> An exceptional CD burning and
ripping frontend for KDE.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://divx.euro.ru">avifile</a> AVI/DIVX encoder and decoder.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.nostatic.org/grip/">Grip</a> A gtk-based cd-player,
ripper and encoder. Supports cddb, cdparanoia and LAME.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.transcoding.org/">Transcode</a> Several command line
utilities to transcode several audio and video formats.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://home.netsurf.de/fr.schueler/Apps/index.html">Mp3Maker</a>
A WindowMaker enhanced front end to cdda2wav/cdparanoia and LAME/bladeenc.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://ripperx.sourceforge.net/">ripperX</a> GTK frontend for
rippers and several encoders featuring CDDB support.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://tear.sourceforge.net/">T.E.A.R.</a> frontend to LAME,
cdparanoia and CDDB.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.amb.org/xmcd/">Xmcd.</a> CD Player with CDDB and
ripping to MP3 and OGG.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://xtunes.sourceforge.net">xtunes</a> GTK frontend for LAME,
MAD, cdparanoia, cdrecord and more.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.agouros.de/dlame/">DLame</a> Perl script to
distribute the LAME encoding task among several machines in a network.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://scara.com/strec/">Strec</a> Stream recorder - A perl
wrapper for dsproxy, realplayer and LAME.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://tcdr.sourceforge.net/">TCDR</a> a menu-driven console
frontend for CD recording and ripping that uses LAME to rip CDs into MP3
files.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://darkice.tyrell.hu/">DarkIce</a> Live streamer for
IceCast.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://star.arm.ac.uk/%7Espm/software/liveice.html">LiveIce</a>
Real time streaming of mp3s. Works with <a
href="http://www.icecast.org">IceCast</a>.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://muse.dyne.org">MuSE</a> A mixing, encoding and streaming
engine.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://f4l.sourceforge.net/">Flash For Linux</a> a Flash-like
development library.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/">ABCDE</a> "A Better CD Encoder"
- Shell script to automatize ripping, encoding and tagging process.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://arson.sourceforge.net">Arson</a> - a KDE fronted to CD
burning and ripping tools.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.vortex.prodigynet.co.uk/cripple/">Cripple</a> - A
command-line/batch CD ripper/encoder frontend.
</li>
</ul>
<p><b> <a name="MacOS">MacOS Classic:</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://philippe.laval.free.fr">DropMP3</a> includes LAME
binaries.
</li>
</ul>
<p><b> <a name="Windows">Windows:</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/">CDex</a> Ripper & encoder,
includes LAME binaries (the Blade compatible dll).
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lamedrop.php">LameDropXPd</a>
OggDrop style drag'n'drop frontend.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/">DVDx</a> DVD to
VCD/SVCD/AVI(XviD...) one-step converter.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.omniencoder.com/">OmniEncoder</a> a fully
featured frontend for LAME and several other encoders.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.interruptx.com">LAMEX</a> An activex control for
LAME, and a GUI. Source code only, includes LAME.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.informatik.fh-muenchen.de/%7Eruckert/m3w/">m3w</a> A
live mp3 streamer for the WWW. Works with LAME, icecast, soundcard input.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://out-lame.sourceforge.net/">out_lame</a> Winamp output
plug-in. Create MP3 files directly from Winamp!
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.dors.de/razorlame/index.php">RazorLame</a> The
RazorBlade front end now supports LAME.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://winlame.sourceforge.net">winLAME</a> The only *nice*
windows UI for LAME, according to the author :-)
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbc2mp3/">bbc2mp3</a> a tool for
saving BBC "Listen Again" programmes as MP3 files.
</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="ClosedSource">Free (closed source) software which supports or uses
LAME:</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.foobar2000.org">Foobar2000</a> (Windows) an audio
player with spartan interface but lots of components and an almost
fanatical focus on audio quality.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net">Audiograbber</a> (Windows)
CD ripper/encoder.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.skillreactor.org/tools/index.htm">EnLAMEr</a>
(Windows) frontend for lame.exe
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.exactaudiocopy.de">EAC</a> (Windows) Exact Audio
Copy: High quality CD ripper.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://slideplay.blogspot.com">jtvmaker</a> (Java) A web
slideshow generating and photo sharing tool using LAME.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.wavosaur.com/">Wavosaur</a> Free audio editor and
batch processor.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.uic.nnov.ru/%7Eloea/">LameBatch</a> (Windows) frontend
for lame.exe
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.fridgesoft.de/harddiskogg.php">Hard Disk Ogg</a> a
line-in recorder that can encode directly to MP3, among other formats.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.1oo-percent.de/lamer/">LAMEr</a> (Windows) Can also
encode from line-in.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.riptrax.com/">RipTrax</a> (Windows) Advanced CD Ripper
with support for LAME and Vorbis.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://snow.prohosting.com/emercer/">Music Conduit</a> (Windows)
A working substitute for the Transfer to Device feature in Windows Media
Player.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/wlame/">WORM MP3 Encoder</a>
(Windows) MP3 encoder based on LAME with reported improvements.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.zlurp.com">ZLURP</a> (Windows, Mac, Linux) Ripper and
encoder. Includes LAME binaries.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://blacktree.com/apps/iTunes-LAME/">iTunes-LAME</a> (MacOS)
Integrates LAME into Apple iTunes, as an alternative to the default
(rather poor) encoder.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://funkatron.com/apps/lamebrain/">LameBrain</a> (MacOS)
LAME frontend for MacOS X.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.helsinki.fi/~lakahone/amiga/secondspin/">SecondSpin</a>
(Amiga) ripper & encoder.
</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Commercial">Commercial software which supports or uses
LAME:</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.winamp.com">WinAmp</a> Can rip CDs using Lame, but
only in the Pro (paid) version.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.steinberg.de/25_1.html">WaveLab</a> Digital Audio
editing software.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.goldwave.com/">Goldwave</a> Audio editor for Windows.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.dbpoweramp.com">dBpowerAMP</a> (Windows) Rip and
encode to/from mp3, wma, vorbis and other audio formats.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.ezbsystems.com/ultraiso/">UltraISO</a> ISO CD image
builder, editor and extractor.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://audioedit.mystikmedia.com">AudioEdit Deluxe</a> Windows
sound editor.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.blazemp.com/">Blaze Media Pro</a> audio/video
converter, editor, CD/DVD burner, and more for Windows.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.swishzone.com/index.php">SWiSH Max</a> Adobe Flash
authoring tool for Windows.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.ubercaster.com/">übercaster</a> Podcast
production suite for Macintosh.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.audioease.com/">Audio Ease BarbaBatch</a> Batch audio
file converter for Macintosh.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.hairersoft.com/Amadeus.html">Amadeus II</a> (Mac)
Manipulate, create and analyze sounds.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.bias-inc.com/">Peak 3</a> Macintosh audio
editing/processing/mastering software.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.panic.com/audion/">Audion</a> Mac Jukebox software.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.kapraet.com/">CD Stack</a> CD ripping software for
Mac.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.nextuptech.com/">Text Aloud MP3</a> Converts text
into speech.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.highcriteria.com/">TotalRecorder</a> Universal sound
recoder.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.cdcopy.sk/">CDcopy</a> Windows ripper/encoder.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.ejay.com/">eJay DJ Mix Station / Dance eJay</a>
Various Windows DJ software, using Gogo.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.poikosoft.com">Easy CD-DA Extractor</a> Windows
ripper/encoder, includes LAME binaries.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.mp3observer.com">MP3 Observer</a> MP3 file-manager,
ID3 tag editor, playlist creator and CD-archiving tool.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.birdcagesoft.com/">MPAction MP3 Tools</a> Windows
jukebox software.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.buttontool.com">1CoolButtonTool</a> Flash and Java
button editor.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://proteron.com/n2mp3pro/">N2MP3 Pro</a> Macintosh jukebox
software.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.ultratagger.com/">UltraTagger.</a> ID3 tag
management, encoding and decoding.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.musichelponline.com/">UMG protected audio CDs</a>
UMG is using Lame for the PC part of protected audio CDs. ("Fast
and Furious").
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.iprogramdev.com/">Visual MP3</a> Windows jukebox
software with Karaoke support.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.flashdig.com/">Flash Digger Plus</a> - a ShockWave
Flash decompiler.
</li>
</ul>
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<h3><a name="Binaries">LAME Binaries:</a></h3>
<h4>Linux:</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.rarewares.org/">RareWares</a> offers Debian binary
packages of LAME and several other audio codecs/tools. Precompiled LAME
versions for other distros are also available.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://freshrpms.net/">FreshRPMs</a> offers Linux RPM <a
href="http://bordeaux.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=1473">packages for
several popular RPM-based distributions</a>, including Fedora Core.
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Windows:</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.rarewares.org/">RareWares</a> offers several
compiled LAME versions, including modified versions featuring special
functionality.
</li>
<li>
From the Encoder/Windows section of <a
href="http://www.mp3-tech.org">www.mp3-tech.org</a>.
</li>
<li>
In the encoders section of <a href="http://www.maz-sound.com/">MAZ
Sound</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<h4>MacOS X:</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.thalictrum.com/">Thalictrum</a> offers optimized
binaries for both Intel and PowerPC Macs.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.kjams.com/wiki/index.php/Lame">KJams</a> has a
QuickTime component, which allows you to export audio from QuickTime
and related apps to MP3 using LAME.
</li>
<li>
The <a href="http://www.finkproject.org/">FINK</a> project provides LAME
binaries compiled for MacOS X.
</li>
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<h4>Solaris:</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">Sunfreeware</a> provides
up-to-date binaries for several versions of Sun Solaris, both SPARC and
x86 architectures.
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Etc.:</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www2.arnes.si/~mmilut/Lame.html">Lame Binary Distribution
Point</a> - somewhat outdated, but with compiles for several obscure
systems like HP-UX, Irix, VMS, Tru64, AIX, etc.
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Amiga:</h4>
<ul>
<li>
For those of you that just won't give up on your Amiga, check <a
href="http://honeypot.net/amiga-alternative-audio-page">The Amiga
Alternative Audio Page</a> or <a
href="http://amiga.sourceforge.net/">Amiga.SF</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h3><a name="Alternatives">Other MP3 Encoders:</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.initialt.org/">Takehiro Tominaga</a> has done some
amazing work on LAME recently (see <a
href="http://lame.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/lame/lame/doc/html/history.html">
history</a>). His versions are available <a
href="http://www.initialt.org/lame-beta/">here (source code only)</a>.
Fortunately for us, Takehiro takes the time to fold many of his
improvements back into LAME.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.marinecat.net/free/windows/mct_free.htm">GOGO-no-coda
MP3 encoder</a> (<a href="http://homepage2.nifty.com/kei-i/">Alternate
link</a>) A forked version of LAME with many key routines rewritten in
assembly (I.E, it's much faster). Uses the <a
href="http://nasm.sourceforge.net/">NASM assembler.</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.rjamorim.com/rrw/mp3enc.html">FhG MP3enc</a> 3.1. The
gold standard of encoders. All other encoders strive to sound this good.
Demo version only encodes up to 30 seconds.<br />
<i>Update: according to recent listening tests, Lame already surpassed
FhG encoders in quality at most bitrates. :-)</i>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.rjamorim.com/rrw/l3enc.html">FhG l3enc</a>. The older
brother of MP3enc. Very slow, but with quite reasonable quality.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.rjamorim.com/rrw/fastencc.html">FhG Fastencc</a> this
"free" encoder was created with libraries stolen from Fraunhofer. It's
the faster brother of MP3enc, and also the only FhG encoder to offer VBR
encoding. Quality is not on par with MP3enc or LAME.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www2.arnes.si/~mmilut/BladeEnc.html">BladeEnc</a> One of
the first free encoders for Linux. Development has stopped at version
0.94.2. Quality is not satisfactory.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-others.php#helix_enc">Xing MP3
encoder</a> Reasonable quality and extremely fast encoder. Is now the MP3
encoder used in Real Jukebox and Real Player, and has been recently
released under an Open Source license (it's still limited to Windows
though)
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.qdesign.com">QDesign MP3 encoder</a> Horrible
quality. Only listed here for completeness purposes.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.rjamorim.com/rrw/">ReallyRareWares</a> is an online
museum preserving obsolete and defunct encoders for several audio
formats, including old LAME versions and obscure MP3 encoders (most of
these encoders are simply compiles of the MPEG reference sources -
dist10 - though)
</li>
</ul>
<hr></hr>
<h3><a name="Comparisons">MP3 Encoder Comparisons based on <i>listening
tests:</i></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://ff123.net/">Lots of different MP3 encoders, using blind
ABX tests</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.rjamorim.com/test/">Roberto's</a> page of public
blind listening tests comparing several formats and encoders.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.listening-tests.info">Sebastian Mares'</a> listening
tests
</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="MP3_sites">MP3 Encoding Web Sites:</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php">Hydrogenaudio</a>
- Public discussion forum focused on psychoacoustic audio compression,
featuring an MP3 section.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.maz-sound.com/">MAZ Sound</a> Encoders and other
audio software.
</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="MP3_general">General MP3 Web Sites:</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>
Great site for technical information: <a
href="http://www.mp3-tech.org">www.mp3-tech.org</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.rarewares.org">RareWares</a> - audio coding-related
download site featuring several audio formats besides MP3.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Main_Page">
HydrogenAudio's Wiki</a> is a repository of knowledge on audio-related
matters.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Recommended_LAME">
HydrogenAudio's list of recommended LAME settings</a> to produce best
quality encodes at several bitrates.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.bitburners.com">BitBurners</a> - The CD-R and MP3
resource
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/">MPEG.ORG</a> Many pointers and
resources.
</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Soft_hard">MP3 Related Software and Hardware:</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>
A favorite Linux ripper: <a
href="http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/">cdparanoia</a> <i>(also, GNU's
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/">libcdio</a>, a
multiplatform port of CDparanoia)</i>
</li>
<li>
How to figure out which codec was used to make that mp3? Use <a
href="http://www.guerillasoft.nstemp.com/EncSpot2/">EncSpot</a>
</li>
<li>
Open source embedded mp3? <a
href="http://www.janovetz.com/jake/cantante/index.html"> Cantante</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/">The MAD decoder</a> Bug
free, 24bit and GPL!
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.pcavtech.com/soundcards/compare/">PCAVtech sound
card benchmarks</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.cmis.csiro.au/dmis/maaate/">Maate</a> looks like a
very sophisticated MP3 analysis package. They also have a good
description of MP3 frames.
</li>
<li>
A nice .wav file viewer and editor: <a
href="http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/index.html"> sweep</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.mptrim.com/">mptrim</a>: Trim silence and adjust
volume of mp3 files.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://programmierer.freepage.de/overmann/">mp3check</a>: A
program to check integrity of mp3 files.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://minnie.tuhs.org/Programs/Mpcut/">Mpcut</a>: X11 mp3
frame editor.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mp3asm">mp3asm</a>: A program
to cut and paste mp3 frames.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.codevisions.de/mp3splitter/">MP3Splitter</a>: Win32
MP3 splitter and frame statistics.
</li>
<li>
<a href="download/util/jchopwave.c">jchopwave</a>: Source code to a
utility to split up .wav files.
</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Line_in">MP3 Encoding direct from line-in:</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.netwaysglobal.com/mpegrec/">mpegrec</a>: Linux/Win32
line-in/mic MP3 recorder (requires LAME).
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://ldb.tpv.ru/">MixMP3</a> by Dmitry Lesnikov
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.dago.pmp.com.pl/messer/">Messer</a> by Dariusz
Sieradzki
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.1oo-percent.de/lamer/">LAMEr</a>, also a nice
Windows
frontend
</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Patents">Patent Information:</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>
Some information from the source themselves: <a
href="http://www.mp3licensing.com"> Thomson Multimedia</a>
</li>
<li>
A more accurate portrayal of the situation can be found on <a
href="http://www.mp3-tech.org">www.mp3-tech.org</a>
</li>
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