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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