After some quality concerns raised by others, he decided to start again from scratch based on the 'dist10' MPEG reference software sources. Īround mid-1998, Mike Cheng created LAME 1.0 as a set of modifications against the '8Hz-MP3' encoder source code. The name LAME is a recursive acronym for ' LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder'. LAME is now bundled with Audacity, which previously required a separate download for LAME. This avoided including LAME itself, which use patented techniques, and so required patent licenses in some countries. LAME was required by some programs released as free software in which LAME was linked for MP3 support, but the patent has expired. The LAME encoder outperforms early encoders like 元enc and possibly the 'gold standard encoder' MP3enc, both marketed by Fraunhofer. LAME is a free software project that was first released in 1998, and has incorporated many improvements since then, including an improved psychoacoustic model.

LAME is a software encoder that converts digital audio into the MP3 Audio coding format.

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