LAME

Compilation problems for alpha and for Cygwin/mingw-w64 were fixed. An issue with fast floating point math was resolved. A bug causing artifacts at the beginning of decoded files was fixed.

A crash related to .w64 input files was fixed. Frames support was enhanced with support for WFED, PCST, and USER frames, and support for COMM frames with descriptions. Two frame-related crashes were fixed.

LAME can now replace common suffixes when no output filename is given. Support for WAVE format IEEE float input files was added. New options to swap channels and to select single stereo channels for mono encoding were added. Many minor bugs were fixed. Debian packaging was improved.

A very important interaction with the FhG decoder was fixed. The hip audio decoding library is used to perform a better job when reencoding MP3 files to MP3 files. Bugs were worked around to improve compatibility with ffmpeg. Many fixes were made regarding ID3 tags, including correct specification of the length of the tracks. Improved fixes were made for building lame under many environments (including native Windows and Cygwin). The Debian packaging was updated to work well with current Debian and Ubuntu distributions.

This release adds some quality improvements to the generated audio files, enables the user to choose fractional variable bitrate qualities, and has upgraded support for libsndfile1 (and, in turn, can use many file formats as input, including FLAC files). It includes many bugfixes, including peripheral tools for user convenience.