Winlame

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. winLAME is a Windows front-end for LAME, a program which can transcode digital audio files between several formats. To begin with, LAME was short for "LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder". Mike Cheng created LAME 1.0 around mid-1998 as a set of modifications against the "8Hz-MP3" encoder sources. After some quality concerns raised by others, he decided to start again from scratch based on the "dist10" MPEG reference software sources. His goal was only to speed up the dist10 sources, and leave its quality untouched. That branch (a patch against the reference sources) became Lame 2.0. The project quickly became a team project. Mike Cheng eventually left leadership and started working on tooLAME (an MP2 encoder).