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LameXP 4.03 r2

LameXP is a graphical front-end for the LAME MP3 Encoder, Ogg Vorbis and Nero AAC audio encoders.

The Nero Encoder is not included in the download, it's available from the Nero Webseite as free download.

Accepted input formats are: Wave, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC/MP4, FLAC, WavPack, Musepack, Speex and APE.

Key Features of LameXP 4.0:

- Complete re-write of LameXP in C++ using the Qt Framework.
- Switching from dated Delphi IDE (version from 2002) to an up-to-date tool chain (VS2008 or GCC 4.5.x).
- Full Unicode support, which means that all problems with "Codepages" and "strange characters" will finally be gone!
- Support for multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOS X) will be possible.
- Creating new LameXP translations will be much easier for contributors thanks to the Qt Linguist tool.
• Note: This is an early technology preview that doesn't do much yet, but you can test the Unicode support already.

Features of LameXP 4.0:

- Creates MP3 (MPEG 1.0 Audio-Layer III) files
- Provides a graphical user-interface for Windows XP
- Provides the highest possible MP3 quality/compression-rate
- Supports PCM Wave-Audio files, MP3 files and raw PCM files
- Supports bitrate-based and quality-based compression
- Supports variable bitrate MP3 files and avarge bitrate encoding
- Supports Mono, Stereo, Joint Stereo and Dual Mono
- Supports ID3 Tags (ID3v1 and ID3v2)
- Supports Resampling and Stereo/Mono Downmixing
- Supports varoius encoder quality/speed modes

Changes from LameXP 4.02 to LameXP 4.03:

- Added an option to rename the output files (based on an user-defined naming pattern)
- Added an option to enforce Stereo Downmix for Multi-Channel sources
- Added "built-in" WMA decoder (see this thread for details) and removed all remnants of "old" decoder
- Added optional support for the FHG AAC Encoder included with Winamp 5.62 (see FAQ doc for details)
- Added a menu for bookmarking "favorite" output folders to the "output folder" tab
- Added an option to hibernate the computer (aka "Suspend-to-Disk") instead of shutting it down
- Added Polish translation, thanks to Sir Daniel K
- Added channel equalization options to the normalization filter (also fixes multi-channel processing)
- Updated Qt runtime libraries to v4.8.0 RC-1 (2011-10-13), compiled with MSVC 10.0
- Updated LAME encoder to v3.99 Final (2011-10-17), compiled with ICL 12.1.6 and MSVC 10.0 (details)
- Updated mpg123 decoder to v1.13.4 (2011-09-07), compiled with GCC 4.6.1
- Updated MediaInfo to v0.7.50 (2011-09-23), compiled with MSVC 10.0
- Updated language files (big thank-you to all contributors !!!)
- Improved "downmix" filter by using explicit channel mappings for each number of input channels
- Fixed a potential bug in CPU type detection that might have caused the wrong binary to be used
- Fixed Cue Sheet import for tracks with certain characters in the title
- Fixed a bug with "Prepend relative source file path to output file" under certain conditions
- Workaround for malicious "anti-virus" programs that prevent innocent applications from functioning
- Enabled "Aero Glass" theme in installer and web-update program (Vista and Windows 7 only)
- Restored Windows 2000 support with Visual Studio 2010 builds (this is experimental!)
- The "Open File(s)" and "Open Folder" dialogs will now remember the most recent directory
- Miscellaneous bugfixes

Reviews (13)

4.31

4

LameXP 4.02
on 27 August 2011 by: Balder

#25308

Decent program, been using this one since v3.0. I sometimes prefer EAC+Lame: displays a DOS window that shows how the (VBR) encoding is being distributed over the various bitrates.

If you're not interested in that kind of information, LameXP works perfectly fine: with individual progress bars.

2

LameXP 4.02
on 06 August 2011 by: Korey Sundkvist

#25237

This is a fake "free" program. It will only run for a short time then it will abort unless you "update" the program. There is a "Disable Update Reminder" under "Advanced Options" but that setting is ignored.

Last time i "updated" a "free" program (Revo Uninstaller), the only thing happend is that a nag screen got installed urging me to by the "Pro" version of the program instead. This is obviously the same sort of scam.

Users of "free" programs have no rights - just imagine a commercial program aborting every start up unless you "update". (Not that I could update anyway - not all 'puters are connected to internet. I can only "update" the program by installing a new version of the program which would then only work for a short time)

5

LameXP 4.02
on 24 July 2011 by: sixor

#25130

great app, i have been using it since a lot of time, i hate the new features, they are bloat (autoupdates, shell integration, many annoying popup windows) but they can be disabled

this thing is the best quality encoder, you can setup the encoding, and also it is so fast without losing quality like other apps, really amazing using 4 cores,

the gui is ok too,

great app, almost perfect

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