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Its about some months ago but only few of you noticed a silent alpha release of the free LAME encoder. The new 4.0 Alpha build seems to be 5 times faster than the 3.9x builds...



There is no public statement from LAME team on that early stage of that build. Its only for for people to try for fun, it's not ready for general consumption. It sounds reasonable but may contain bugs/errors.

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Download LAME 4.0 Alpha 6

Download LAME 3.93.1 Latest Final

Z3r0K Unregistered

#49200 Posted on: 11/04/2003 04:26 PM I've been a w2s reader for years... and I've never had an account... never realised how **** the posting system is.

NIN9 Senior Member Posts: 401 Joined: 2002-04-11

#49201 Posted on: 11/04/2003 05:57 PM this post is correct, the 4.0 build is only for testing new technologies/programming by takehira the lame developer ..the next official release will be 3.94 not 4.0 as you think.

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#49209 Posted on: 11/04/2003 09:52 PM LAME 3.94alpha (CVS) Takehiro Tominaga: fixed block switching of nspsytune best huffman divide in the inner loop. This should improve the quality, but PAINFULLY slow. So it is not enabled by default. Use -q0 to use it. Changed -q option mapping. "-q2" until version 3.93 is now "-q3". saving bits by better scalefactor storing removed Vorbis support substep quantization.This should help breaking the SFB21 bloating problem made psychoacoustic model aware of ATH adjustements use ATH value as short block masking lower limit several fixes in psychoacoustic model more robust decoding Mark Taylor / Gabriel Bouvigne: fixed issues in VBR header Mark Taylor: workaround against some hardware decoder defficiencies Aleksander Korzynski: ability to compute ReplayGain and detect clipping on the fly. ReplayGain value is stored into the Lame tag. Gabriel Bouvigne: work on presets analog silence detection in partitionned sfb21 do not compute noise in upper 0 part of the spectrum Guillaume Lessard: nogap related changes Alexander Leidinger: prevent closing the input fd prematurely if the input is a named pipe Changelog for anyone interested Also: I doubt 4.0 is being actively tested or used for anything at all since the version on that site was compiled so long ago and you would assume that since this version was compiled more recently it will have the latest improvements (it is pretty good)

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