Blade's MP3 Encoder
BladeEnc is a freeware MP3 encoder. It is based on the same ISO compression routines as mpegEnc, so you
can expect roughly the same, or better, quality . The main difference is the appearance and speed. BladeEnc
doesn't have a nice, user−friendly interface like mpegEnc, but it is more than three times faster, and it works
with several popular front−end graphical user interfaces.
http://bladeenc.cjb.net
Lame
In the great history of GNU naming, LAME stands for LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME is not an mp3
encoder. It is a GPL'd patch against the dist10 ISO demonstration source. LAME is totally incapable of
producing an mp3 stream. It is incapable of even being compiled by itself. You need the ISO source for this
software to work. The ISO demonstration source is also freely available, but any commercial use (including
distributing free encoders) may require a license agreement from FhG (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany).
http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/
Gogo
This is a very fast MP3 encoder for x86−CPU, which is based on LAME ver 3.29beta and optimized by
PEN@MarineCat, Keiichi SAKAI, URURI, kei and shigeo. (You will also need to download NASM to
compile the source, which can be found http://www.web−sites.co.uk/nasm/)
http://homepage1.nifty.com/herumi/gogo_e.html
7.3 Players
To play the MP3's you will naturally need a player:
Xmms (Formerly known as X11Amp)
This player has most of the features as Winamp from Windows 95/98/NT but it will of course feature some
specials only available for the Linux version.
http://www.xmms.org
Xaudio
Xaudio is a very fast and very robust multi platform solution for Digital Audio playback, especially targeted
at MPEG Audio (MP1, MP2 and MP3) decoding.
http://www.xaudio.com
AlsaPlayer
AlsaPlayer is a new type of PCM player. It is heavily multi−threaded and tries to exercise the ALSA library
and driver quite a bit. It has some very interesting features unique to Linux/Unix players. The goal is to create
a fully pluggable framework for playback of all sorts of media with the focus on PCM audio data. Full speed
The Linux MP3−HOWTO
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