Free lame mp3 mac software for linux

LAME is short from LAME Aint an MP3 Encoder and is a research project for learning about and improving MP3 encoding technology. LAME includes an MP3 encoding library, simple frontend application, a much-improved psycho-acoustic model (GPSYCHO), and a graphical frame analyzer (MP3x).
Please note that any commercial use (including distributing the LAME encoding engine in a free encoder) may require a patent license from Thomson Multimedia.
Main features:
- Many improvements in quality in speed over ISO reference software. See history.
- MPEG1,2 and 2.5 layer III encoding.
- CBR (constant bitrate) and two types of variable bitrate, VBR and ABR.
- Encoding engine can be compiled as a shared library (Linux/UNIX), DLL or ACM codec (Windows)
- free format encoding and decoding
- GPSYCHO: a GPLd psycho acoustic and noise shaping model.
- Powerfull and easy to use presets
- Quality is comparable to FhG encoding engines and substantially better than most other encoders.
- Fast! Encodes faster than real time on a PII 266 at highest quality mode.
- MP3x: a GTK/X-Window MP3 frame analyzer for both .mp3 and unencoded audio files.
Software which uses "LAME":
- andromeda (PHP and ASP) Dynamically presents collections of mp3s as streaming web sites.
- rip (Perl) Script for ripping and encoding.
- avifile AVI/DIVX encoder and decoder for Linux.
- Grip (Linux) gtk-based cd-player, ripper and encoder. Supports cddb, cdparanoia and LAME.
- jbm2 (Linux) A KDE jukebox style application for public places (bars, pubs,...)
- Krabber (Linux) A KDE ripper & encoder, can use LAME.
- Mp3Maker (Linux) A WindowMaker enhanced front end to cdda2wav/cdparanoia and lame/bladeenc.
- dekagenc (Linux) Bourne shell script for ripping, encoding and CDDB naming.
- ripperX (Linux) GTK frontend for rippers and several encoders featuring CDDB support.
- T.E.A.R. (Linux) frontend to LAME, cdparanoia and CDDB.
- Xmcd. (Linux) CD Player with CDDB and ripping to MP3 and OGG.
- xtunes (Linux) GTK frontend for LAME, MAD, cdparanoia, cdrecord and more.
- DropMP3 (Mac) includes LAME binaries.
- CDex (Windows) Ripper & encoder, includes LAME binaries (the Blade compatible dll)
- Lamedrop (Windows) OggDrop style frontend.
- LAMEX (Windows) An activex control for LAME, and a GUI. Source code only, includes LAME.
- m3w (Windows) A live mp3 streamer for the WWW. Works with LAME, icecast, soundcard input
- out_lame (Windows) Winamp output plug-in. Create MP3 files directly from Winamp!
- RazorLame (Windows) The RazorBlade front end now supports LAME.
- winLAME (Windows) The only *nice* windows UI for LAME, according to the author :-)
- DarkIce Live streamer for IceCast.
- LiveIce Real time streaming of mp3s. Works with IceCast
- MuSE A mixing, encoding and streaming engine.
- Flash Forth a Flash-like development library
Enhancements:
- This version is identical to 3.97b3, which was promoted to release.

Dynamic MP3 Lister was a project I started a long time ago to create dynamic lists of MP3s quickly and easily.

Features MP3 Information extraction for things like bitrate, channels, playtime and more.

Please note that this script is discontinued, and is only shown here now as an example of my work.

SYNOPSIS

require File::Spec::Mac; # Done internally by File::Spec if needed

Methods for manipulating file specifications.

METHODS

canonpath

On Mac OS, theres nothing to be done. Returns what its given.

catdir()

Concatenate two or more directory names to form a path separated by colons (":") ending with a directory. Resulting paths are relative by default, but can be forced to be absolute (but avoid this, see below). Automatically puts a trailing ":" on the end of the complete path, because thats whats done in MacPerls environment and helps to distinguish a file path from a directory path.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Beginning with version 1.3 of this module, the resulting path is relative by default and not absolute. This decision was made due to portability reasons. Since File::Spec->catdir() returns relative paths on all other operating systems, it will now also follow this convention on Mac OS. Note that this may break some existing scripts.

The intended purpose of this routine is to concatenate directory names. But because of the nature of Macintosh paths, some additional possibilities are allowed to make using this routine give reasonable results for some common situations. In other words, you are also allowed to concatenate paths instead of directory names (strictly speaking, a string like ":a" is a path, but not a name, since it contains a punctuation character ":").

So, beside calls like

catdir("a") = ":a:"
catdir("a","b") = ":a:b:"
catdir() = "" (special case)

calls like the following

catdir(":a:") = ":a:"
catdir(":a","b") = ":a:b:"
catdir(":a:","b") = ":a:b:"
catdir(":a:",":b:") = ":a:b:"
catdir(":") = ":"

are allowed.

MP3::Album::Track is a Perl extension to manage a "physical" track of a mp3 album.

SYNOPSIS

use MP3::Album::Track;

#create a track object
$track = MP3::Album::Track->new(filename=>$path_to_mp3_file);

#set its mp3 tag
$track->set_tag(title=>i dont know why);

#rename it!
$track->rename(filename=>$path_to_new_file);

Manages a mp3 album track. Gets and sets mp3 file info.

Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, an MP3 streamer. Zina can run on its own, embeded into an existing website, or as a Postnuke/PHPNuke/Xoops/Mambo module. It is similar to Andromeda, but released under the GNU General Public License.
Main features:
- MP3 / OGG / WAV / WMA / Real Audio streaming
- Custom and "Session" Playlists
- Random, non-repeating playlists by albums or songs
- "Skip Track:" Easily exclude songs from albums and random playlists
- Searching
- Simple Installation (no database)
- Easy to configure:(uses regular text and graphic files for customization)
- Can be used as a Postnuke or PHPNuke module
- As of 0.11.09 can be used as an Xoops module or MamboServer component
- Can downsample mp3s on the fly (with external encoder like LAME)
- Can dynamically resize images if your version of PHP (with GD library) supports it.
- Localization support (0.10.x: English, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Traditional Chinese, French, Danish, Bulgarian, Croation, Hebrew, Basque, Russian, Norwegian, Turkish, Swedish, Slovakian, Hungarian, Catalan, Brazilian, Albanian, Romanian, Finnish, Greek, Kannada; 0.11.x adds Bahasa Indonesia, Japanese)
- Many of the features of Andromeda
- Many other features (see Changelog)
- Released under GNU General Public License
Requierments:
- PHP 4.1.x on the Apache web server (IIS is not supported, although it may work, see here).
- Any web browser that supports JavaScript and CSS.
- An media player (Winamp, xmms, mpg123, etc.) that supports .m3u playlists (and .asx in 0.11.x).
Enhancements:
- This release hopefully adds better ID3 Unicode support.
- It also includes a Vietnamese translation.

BladeEnc is a freeware MP3 encoder. It is based on the same ISO compression routines as mpegEnc, so you can expect roughly the same, or better, quality . The main difference is the appearance and speed.
BladeEnc doesnt have a nice, user-friendly interface like mpegEnc, but it is more than three times faster, and it works with several popular front-end graphical user interfaces.
BladeEncs output quality is one of those rare subjects that completely divides the world in two parts. Either you love it or you hate it, there never seems to be an opinion inbetween. Different audiophiles and mp3 experts tends to come to completely different conclusions depending on their methods and testsamples.
The reason for this is of course that BladeEnc is a very different mp3 encoder (compared to Fraunhofer, LAME etc) with a very unique approach to mp3 encoding.
In order to compress sound to an mp3 file, you need to make certain sacrifices in quality. Taking into account how we percieve sound, the mp3 encoder tries to remove the details that it believes us to be least likely to notice. How much that needs to be removed depends on the bitrate and the encoder often has the choice of doing different kinds of sacrifices.
It can remove low volume tones that are "shadowed" by high volume tones of similar frequencies, remove the high frequency part of the sound spectrum, cut down the stereo effect (so called joint stereo) and simply decrease the samplerate. What approach is the best depends on a lot of things, like the style of music and the selected bitrate.
Main features:
- Sourcecode available under the LGPL-license!
- Stereo or Mono output. Can downmix to Mono on the fly.
- Supports the following bitrates: 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256 and 320 kBit/s. However, for bitrates lower than 128 kBit we seriously recommend you to use another encoder.
- Flags like Private, Original and Copyright can be set.
- Input samples can be in either 32, 44.1 or 48 kHz.
- Both 8 and 16-bit samples are supported.
- Working CRC checksum generation (since 0.80). The ISO reference code had broken CRC calculations, which has been inherited into every ISO based encoder that havent added a fix for it.
- Can be plugged directly into many popular 3rd party products, giving them integrated mp3 encoding abilities.
- Encodes chunks of data from memory to memory, no need to use files or pipes.
- Can be compiled for nearly any operating system still in use.
- Commandline based, makes it easy to include BladeEnc into BAT files and shell scripts.
- Only mp3 encoder that supports gapless encoding.
- Reads standard uncompressed WAV- and AIFF-files as well as well as RAW PCM-data.
- Batch encoding. Can encode any number of samples in a row.
- Wildcards supported. You can for example encode all WAV-files in a directory by typing *.WAV".
- Input samples can be automatically deleted after encoding.
- Large selection of graphical frontends available.
- Task priority can be set from the commandline and is by default set to LOWEST so that you still can use your computer effectively while encoding (Windows & OS/2 only).
- Full support for pipes and redirection (stdin and stdout).
- Textbased configuration file where you can change default settings.