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What's happening at Rarewares.
LAME 3.99.4 Released
2012-01-25Standard compiles are available on the mp3 pages. Compiles are now MSVC9/ICL12.1 to retain Windows 2000 compatibility.
A Full Set of aoTuVbeta6.03 Compiles is available
2011-05-04The full set is available on the Ogg pages, thanks to Aoyumi for the update, and another quick bug fix.
LAME 3.99 goes Beta
2011-04-15Standard x86 and x64 bundles are available on the 'LAME Bundle' page.
Standard OggdropXPd and oggenc2.87 compiles updated
2010-11-06Above updated to fix incorrect 6.1 channel mapping and to incorporate libogg 1.2.1 and libvorbis 1.3.2. x64 compile for oggenc2.87 added.
AACGain and iGain Updated
2010-08-03Above updated to v1.9 and available on the AAC Encoders and tools page.
LAME Bundles now available as 64bit Compiles for Windows
2010-06-08As above. The 64bit compile of 3.98.4 is slower than the 32bit version, but the 3.99a10 compile is faster on both XP x64 and Windows 7 64bit Ultimate!
LAME 3.98.4 Released
2010-03-23A full set of compiles is now available.
fpMP3Enc + FLAC
2009-12-07A new package of fpMP3Enc, this time including a FLAC encoder. Uses the Fiber Pool multi-threading framework.
fpMP3Enc
2009-10-29fpMP3Enc is a multi-threaded version of LAME that uses the Fiber Pool multi-threading framework to take advantage of modern multi-core CPUs.
EAC 0.99 PreBeta 4 and PreBeta 5 added to the "Others" section
2009-10-02We have added the above .zip archives to the "Others" section so that those who are concerned about virus notifications using the usual installers can install without fear of infection.

