Lame encoder 3.88 released..

Lame Encoder 3.88 has been released. The Lame Encoder is known for it's perfect quality, and is recommend by r3mix.net, THE page about audio quality and compression:

LAME 3.88beta   March 25 2001

• A lot of work that was never added to the History!
• Frank Klemm and Gabriel Bouvigne:  New ATH formula. 
  Big improvement for high bitrate encodings.
• Robert Hegemann:  Better outer_loop stopping
  criterion.  Enabled with -q2 or better.
• Robert Hegemann/Naoki Shibata:  slow/carefull
  noise shaping.  -q3..9:  amplify all distorted bands.  -q2: amplify distorted bands within 50%.  -q1-0:  amplify only most distorted band at each iteration.
• Takehiro Tominaga:  LAME restructured into a shared library and front end application.  Slight changes to the API. More changes are coming to turn LAME into a true shared library (right now you have to recompile if you upgrade the library 🙁
• Naoki Shibata:

• improvements to psychoacoustics
  (--nspsytune)
• BUG in long block pre echo control fixed (some
  out of range array access in M/S psychoacoustics)

Ralf Kempkens:    Visual Basic Script
for lame, suggested to put it on your Windows Desktop and you can drag'n'drop
Waves to encode on it.

Alexander Stumpf: improved lame.bat
for 4Dos users

Mark Taylor: Several bugs fixed in the resampling
code.

Frank Klemm, Robert Hegemann:    added
assembler code for CPU feature detection on runtime (MMX, 3DNow, SIMD)

Takehiro Tominaga: 3DNow FFT code.

Florian Bome, Alexander Leidinger:   
more work on configure stuff

Alexander Leidinger:   automake/libtool
generated Makefiles and TONS of other work.

Alexander Leidinger:   Much work towards
shared library style API.

Anonymous: New more efficient RTP code.

Mark Taylor: psycho-acoustic data now computed
for all scalefactor bands (up to 24khz)

Mark Taylor, Takehiro Tominaga: All ISO table data replaced by formulas - should improve MPEG2.5 results for which we never
had correct table data.

Long list

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