Download Lame 3.98.2 stable

At the beginning of this week, the developers behind the encoder Lame released a new stable version. This time it concerns version 3.98.2, which will be made available as a maintenance release on the 3.98 version. Lame, short for ‘Lame Ain’t an MP3 Encoder’, is a cross-platform encoder that can convert sound files to the MP3 format. The program is used in many music and media players for encoding music. There are also various frontends that Lame can control via a graphical interface and use it to, for example, rip the music on an audio CD. The changes made in Lame 3.98.2 can be read below:

The 3.98.2 release is a maintenance release about 3.98. Changes do not affect audio quality, but operational bug fixes only:

• build system related: some fixes for mp3rtp and abx tools
• encoder padding values ​​were not correct when resampling was involved
• frequency filtering API was broken; in case you want to use your own higher quality filtering method, it is now possible again to disable LAME buildin filters
• ID3 tag:
  • id3v1-only switch did not work anymore, fixed
  • tg improved, now it matches more often one of the ID3v1 genres, even when small spelling errors are involved
  • add-id3v2-size is a new switch, it allows to define your own padding of n bytes.

NOTE: Version 3.98.1 contains a bug that will let it crash when encoding CBR/ABR or with old VBR at setting q0, q1 or q2!