The outcome of the developement work of the LAME open source community. LAME is also, with use of gpsycho, one of the few encoders that support CBR, VBR and ABR encoding modes. LAME(Lame Aint an MP3 Encoder) is a widely used and one of the most popular MP3 encoder.
LAME's audio quality is usually rated as on par with the Fraunhofer encoder quality, though with tuning it can go well above that. However, many user-friendly packages now have pre-compiled binaries of LAME included (such as Exact Audio Copy), though you can still compile from source if you like. You need the ISO source for this software to work. It is incapable of even being compiled by itself. LAME is totally incapable of producing an mp3 stream. It is a GPL'd patch against the dist10 ISO demonstration source. Since LAME is under the GNU GPL, most people think it's for hackers only. LAME stands for LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME is also most frequently used with the gpsycho acoustical model shapping system for better sound dynamics. Even still, LAME is probably one of the 5 most used MP3 encoders available with the added benefit of being free.
LAME compiles on Windows, DOS, GNU/Linux, MacOS X, BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64 Unix. Though the LAME project maintains that LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. Source code tarballs of the versions can be downloaded from SourceForge. But later on in 2000 a full rewrite was finished and the LAME system contained all project-owned code and discard anything proprietary. LAME began as a patch for the Fraunhofer MP3 demo source ( dist10) and, as such, couldn't make any output on it's own which is why it's named what it's named. Abbreviated recursively as LAME, It's now an anachronism in that LAME now is a full Mpeg 1 Layer 3 encoder, though it wasn't always that way.
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