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LAME and MP3-related Links

Quick Links:

^ Free (open source) software which supports or uses LAME:

  Multiplatform:

  UNIX and UNIX-like (Linux, MacOS X, BSD, Solaris, etc.):

  MacOS Classic:

  Windows:

^ Free (closed source) software which supports or uses LAME:

^ Commercial software which supports or uses LAME:


^ LAME Binaries:

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Linux:

MacOS X:

Etc.:


^ Other MP3 Encoders:


^ MP3 Encoding Web Sites:

^ General MP3 Web Sites:

^ MP3 Related Software and Hardware:

^ MP3 Encoding directly from line-in:

^ Patent Information:

By April 23rd, 2017 all relevant software patents applying to MP3 compression technology had expired. MP3 is now considered to be a patent-free format, and licenses are not being collected anymore. Anyone is free to implement the specification and distribute the implementation.

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