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LAME Developers

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LAME was originally developed by Mike Cheng, from 1998 to 1999. After he retired, the project started being maintained by Mark Taylor until early 2003. After 2003, the project became managed by core developers' teamwork, with no official hierarchy or leadership.

The following list only represents some of the individuals (in alphabetical order of family name) that contributed resources to LAME development. LAME owes its quality and speed to contributions from many other people, including the many people who post to the mp3encoder mailing list. See the LAME History for more complete details.

Primary developers:
Rogério Brito Debian packaging, debugging
Robert Hegemann Tuning, optimizations, psychoacoustics...
Alexander Leidinger Multiplatform configuration, libraries handling, release management
 
Primary developers - Retired:
Gabriel Bouvigne Tuning, optimizations, psychoacoustics...
Mike Cheng Maintainer of LAME v2.x
Frank Klemm Psychoacoustics, optimizations
Naoki Shibata Psychoacoustics (NSPsytune model, NSSafeJoint)
Mark Taylor Maintainer of LAME v3.x, initial implementer of GPsycho psychoacoustic model
Takehiro Tominaga Psychoacoustics, bitstream, optimizations, assembly code...
 
Additional developers:
Roberto Amorim Web pages and documentation
Josep Maria Antolín Segura Documentation
John Dahlstrom Adaptive ATH
John Dee LAME extended VBR header
Dominique Duvivier Speed optimizations
Albert Faber Author of CDex and lame_enc.dll
Joseph Flynn LAME DirectShow Filter
Peter Gubanov LAME DirectShow Filter
Guillaume Lessard  
Steve Lhomme LAME ACM codec
Don Melton ID3v1 and v2 code
Darin Morrison Presets tuning
Kyle VanderBeek Python bindings, website clean-up