


Mike Cheng eventually left leadership and started working on tooLame, an MP2 encoder. Mark Taylor became a leader and started pursuing better quality in addition to increased speed. He can be considered the initiator of the LAME project in its current form. He released version 3.0 featuring gpsycho, a new psychoacoustic model he developed. In early 2003 Mark left project leadership, and since then the project has been lead through the cooperation of the active developers (currently three individuals). Today, LAME is considered the best MP3 encoder at mid-high bitrates and at VBR, mostly thanks to the dedicated work of its developers and the open-source licensing model that allowed the project to tap into engineering resources from all around the world.
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MP3x: a GTK/X-Window MP3 frame analyzer for both.GPSYCHO: a GPL'd psycho acoustic and noise shaping model.Encoding engine can be compiled as a shared library (Linux/UNIX), DLL, Directshow filter or ACM codec (Windows).CBR (constant bitrate) and two types of variable bitrate, VBR and ABR.MPEG1, MPEG2 and MPEG2.5 layer III encoding.Many improvements in quality in speed over ISO reference software.Fast! Encodes faster than real time on a PII 266 at highest quality mode.Quality better than all other encoders at most bitrates.Both quality and speed improvements are still happening, probably making LAME the only MP3 encoder still being actively developed.
