Free lame mp3 software for linux

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.

Kwirc is another irc client irc : it is designed to be sexy.
Main features:
- SSL Support
- Multiserver
- Lame mode with smileys
- Ruby scripting
- Sexy interface
- Random crashes
Enhancements:
- Initial release

Grip is a CD player and CD ripper/MP3-encoder for the GNOME desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav).
It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 encoders (presets for lame, bladeenc, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3encode, and gogo), letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s.
The Ogg Vorbis format is also supported. Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information from disc database servers.
Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified, "computerized" version of your music collection.
Main features:
- Full-featured CD player with a small screen footprint in "condensed" mode
- Database lookup/submission to share track information over the net
- HTTP proxy support for those behind firewalls
- Loop, shuffle, and playlist modes
- Ripping of single, multiple, or partial tracks
- Encoding of ripped .wav files into MP3 files (as well support for OGG and FLAC)
- Simultaneous rip and encode
- Support for multiple encode processes on SMP machines
- Adding ID3v1/v2 tags to MP3 files
- Cooperating with DigitalDJ, my SQL-based MP3 jukebox
Enhancements:
- de.po: updated (G?tz Waschk)
- it.po: updated (Ceoldo Costantino)
- fr.po: updated (Eric Lassauge)
- pl_PL.po: added (Piotr Adamocha)
- id3.c: put a zero byte before the id3v1 track number (Vladimir Petrov)
- discdb.c: string parsing fixes to support i18n (Vladimir Petrov)
- discdb.c: better handling of non-UTF-8 local discdb files (Vladimir Petrov)
- various: tweaks to filesystem-safe character escaping (Vladimir Petrov)
- cdplay.c: allow retrieving of non-UTF-8 discdb entries (Vladimir Petrov)
- discdb.c: fixed a possible buffer overflow crash (Dean Brettle)
- grip.spec.in: added some missing BuildRequires (Stephen E. Dudek)
- configure.in: upped version to 3.3.1

CD-Rchive2 is a complete revamp of the popular but now aged CD-Rchive program. It is intended to be used with cdrecord-ProDVD, cdda2wav, and mkisofs for the production of data and music CDs and data DVDs.
Built in tools allow cloning of a complete CD or DVD and writing copies. A Boot Wizard will guide you through steps required to make a bootable CD or DVD, write the code, and compile a binary menu program which runs with isolinux.
Enhancements:
- Functionality was added when ripping tracks from CD to automatically convert to .mp3 instead of .wav via a checkbox on the .wav tab page.
- This requires lame to be installed.
- A problem of occassional incorrect audio device specification on single device machines such as laptops was fixed.

Arson is a KDE frontend to various CD burning, and ripping tools. Arson project was originally begun to burn audio CDs because i could find no other frontends which used cdrdao (in disk at once mode), which could decode various encoded audio formats (mp3, ogg), and displayed accurate track length as the playlist was created. But as usual once the initial plans were implemented I just kept going...
Arson has expanded to be a CD ripper (with many output formats), a VCD/Music/Data burner, a CD copier, a device unlocker, and a CDRW blanker. And thats in the current version!
Main features:
- Full progress displayed for all lengthy operations
- Drag and drop from Konqueror to create play lists
- Audio CD Burning
Accurate track length tally displayed as track list grows
Can burn using cdrdao or cdrecord (in Disk at Once, or Track at Once)
Supports various audio file types, currently:
- Wav
- Mp3 (decode using either mpg123 or LAME)
- Ogg Vorbis (optional)
- SHN
- FLAC (optional)
Can optionally normalize (in batch or mix mode) all tracks before burning to even out volumes
Supports sox to fix broken audio tracks (tracks not in 44100Khz, 16bit, stereo)
Can open, and optionally verify MD5 disk sets
Can load track lists from m3u files
Supports editing and burning CD-Text info with cdrdao
- VCD Burning
Can create and burn VCDs and SVCDs
- Data CD Burning
Existing ISO, and CUE/BIN files
Image creation/burning from single directory tree
Complete filesystem creation
ISO images burned with either cdrdao or cdrecord
- Audio CD ripping/encoding (rip tracks from CD to file)
Can rip audio tracks using cdda2wav OR cdparanoia
Encoding in various output file formats, currently:
- Wav
- Mp3 (bladeenc, and LAME supported)
- Ogg Vorbis (optional)
- FLAC (optional)
- AU
- CDR
- AIFF
- AIFC
CdIndex support (a free CDDB-like service)
HTTP retrieval
Freedb support (a free, open CDDB service)
HTTP, and local retrieval
HTTP, and local submit
CD-Text retrieval
Supports generic SCSI and cooked IOCTL interfaces
Auto tagging of MP3 files using id3v2
Configurable audio quality presets (bitrate, channels, etc)
- CD-to-CD copying
Direct copy
CD-to-file-to-CD copying
Using either readcd/cdrecord or cdrdao
- Data CD ripping
Rip to ISO file with readcd
Rip to CUE/BIN files with cdrdao
- Multisession burning
- Device unlock/reset
- CDRW Blanking
Whats New in 0.9.8 Beta2 Release:
- Fixed bug #829892 - Icon installation broken
- Fixed bug #815006 - Incorrect Freedb Choices. User is now presented with a choice if multiple albums returned
- Fixed bug #826786 - Arson crashes when D&Ding a directory
- Started removal of KDE2 dependancies, including configure.in.in, etc
- Fixed bug with rerunning of configure from a fresh CVS install

AudConvert is an application that is designed to take any audio format and convert it to any other audio format.
The idea for AudConvert came from my need to turn my Ogg Vorbis collection into MP3s for portable devices.
Yes, this process sometimes will result in lower quality, but sometimes it must be done.
Main features:
- Input any directory of files, get out the same directory structure (or flat directory) of newly encoded files.
- Multi-threaded: Encode up to 8 files simultaneously.
This is the first release of this software and it needs a lot of testing.
Supported Inputs:
- Ogg Vorbis (oggdec)
- MP3 (mpg123)
- FLAC (flac)
Supported Outputs:
- Ogg Vorbis (oggenc)
- MP3 (lame)

gTVTimer is an easy to use videorecorder and frontend to MEncoder. You can use gTVTimer to schedule recordings from your analog TV card.
There is still a lot to add/improve. Feel free to send bug reports and suggestions.
Main features:
- supported video codecs: DivX, MJPEG, MPEG2, XviD
- supported audio codecs: MP2 (lavc, toolame), MP3 (lavc, lame)
- supported filters: crop, resize, deinterlace, denoise
- simple TV application
- preview of recorded videos
- translations: English, German

Audio::FindChunks can breaks audio files into sound/silence parts.

SYNOPSIS

use Audio::FindChunks;

# Duplicate input to output, caching RMS values to a file (as a side effect)
Audio::FindChunks->new(rms_filename => x.rms, filter => 1)->get(rms_data);

# Output human-readable info, using RMS cache file xxx.rms if present:
Audio::FindChunks->new(cache_rms => 1, filename => xxx.mp3,
stem_strip_extension => 1)->output_blocks();

# Remove start/end silence (if longer than 0.2sec):
Audio::FindChunks->new(cache_rms => 1, filename => xxx.mp3,
min_actual_silence_sec => 1e100)->split_file();

# Split a multiple-sides tape recording
Audio::FindChunks->new(filename => xxx.mp3, min_actual_silence_sec => 11
)->split_file({verbose => 1});

Audio sequence is broken into parts which contain only noise ("gaps"), and parts with usable signal ("tracks").

The following configuration settings (and defaults) are supported:

# For getting PCM flow (and if averaging data is read from cache)
frequency => 44100, # If raw_pcm or override_header_info only
bytes_per_sample => 4, # likewise
channels => 2, # likewise
sizedata => MY_INF, # likewise (how many bytes of PCM to read)
out_fh => *STDOUT, # mirror WAV/PCM to this FH if filter
# Process non-WAV data:
preprocess => {mp3 => [[qw(lame --silent --decode)], [], [-]]}, # Second contains extra args to read stdin
# RMS cache (used if valid_rms)
rms_extension => .rms, # Appended to the filestem
# Averaging to RMS info
sec_per_chunk => 0.1, # The window for taking mean square
# thresholds picking from the list of sorted 3-medians of RMS data
threshold_in_sorted_min_rel => 0, # relative position of threashold_min
threshold_in_sorted_min_sec => 1, # shifted by this amount in the list
threshold_factor_min => 1, # the list elt is multiplied by this
threshold_in_sorted_max_rel => 0.5, # likewise
threshold_in_sorted_max_sec => 0, # likewise
threshold_factor_max => 1, # likewise
threshold_ratio => 0.15, # relative position between min/max
# Chunkification: smoothification
above_thres_window => 11, # in units of chunks
above_thres_window_rel => 0.25, # fractions of chunks above threshold
# in a window to make chunk signal
# Splitting into runs of signal/noise
max_tracks => 9999, # fail if more signal/noise runs
min_signal_sec => 5, # such runs of signal are forced
min_silence_sec => 2, # likewise
ignore_signal_sec => 1, # short runs of signal are ignored
min_silence_chunks_merge (see below) # and long resulting runs of silence
# are forced
# Calculate average signal in an interval "deeply inside" silence runs
local_level_ignore_pre_sec => 0.3, # offset the start of this interval
local_level_ignore_pre_rel => 0.02, # additional relative offset
local_level_ignore_post_sec => 0.3, # likewise for end of the interval
local_level_ignore_post_rel => 0.02, # likewise
# Enlargement of signal runs: attach consequent chunks with signal this much
# above this average over the neighbour silence run
local_threshold_factor => 1.05,
# Final enlargement of runs of signal
extend_track_end_sec => 0.5, # Unconditional enlargement
extend_track_begin_sec => 0.3, # likewise
min_boundary_silence_sec => 0.2, # Ignore short silence at start/end

Note that above_thres_window is the only value specified directly in units of chunks; the other *_sec may be optionally specified in units of chunks by setting the corresponding *_chunks value. Note also that this window should better be decreased if minimal allowed silence length parameters are decreased.

These values are mirrored from other values if not explicitly specified:

min_actual_silence_sec<<less