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Following the great history of GNU naming, LAME originally stood for
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LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME started life as a GPL'd patch against
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the dist10 ISO demonstration source, and thus was incapable of
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producing an mp3 stream or even being compiled by itself. But in May
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2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were replaced, and now
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LAME is the source code for a fully GPL'd MP3 encoder, with speed and
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quality to rival all commercial competitors.
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LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3
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encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to use the open source model
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to improve the psycho acoustics, noise shaping and speed of
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MP3. Another goal of the LAME project is to use these improvements for
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the basis of a patent free audio compression codec for the GNU
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project.
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