Following the great history of GNU naming, LAME originally stood for LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME started life as a GPL'd patch against the dist10 ISO demonstration source, and thus was incapable of producing an mp3 stream or even being compiled by itself. But in May 2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were replaced, and now LAME is the source code for a fully GPL'd MP3 encoder, with speed and quality to rival all commercial competitors. Read More!

New in this version:
Dated: December 29 2001 Darin Morrison:
Bugfix for --alt-preset (for content with low volume, clean vocals), only important for the "fast standard" preset Alexander Leidinger:
add some missing files to the distribution add --alt-preset to the man page Get a full list of the software, which supports the LAME Codec here.
Read more about Lame and download here.