Re: Alternatives to LAME mp3 encoder

With the vast amounts of memory we have today, why bother with lossy files at all unless it's to keep continuity with other elements of a collection? I picked up a 400+ GB SDXC Class 10 card about a year ago What I'm more interested in a way to extract audio from a vid without having to go through hoops as with VLC and don't even talk about Freemake, they've become the Amazon of crapware - and worse; addons (pity; they were pretty good)


      From: stan <[email protected]>
 To: [email protected] 
 Sent: Sunday, March 5, 2017 2:55 PM
 Subject: Re: [Audacity-users] Alternatives to LAME mp3 encoder
   
On Sun, 05 Mar 2017 14:50:46 -0400
jklarl <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm looking for an alternative to the LAME mp3 encoder to use with
> Audacity if one exists.  Which one do you recommend?  Thanks in
> advance...

I don't know if it will work with audacity, but fluendo sells codec
packages.

http://www.fluendo.com/en/products/enterprise/fluendo-codec-pack/

The mpg patents, including mp3, are almost all expired.  There is
one left that will expire in early 2018.  At that point, if mpg is
still relevant, other people will probably develop open source mp3
encoders and decoders.

I think the only open source options at this point are lame and libmad.

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