tooLAME 02k released

[sterno]

tooLAME 02j was released a few days ago (the first new release in about a year and a half). And now, a few days later, 02k is released with some bugfixes to 02j.

http://mikecheng.d2.net.au/

It looks like it should compile just fine on any reasonably UNIX-like platform. There is a version of 02i for Windows floating around that was compiled with Intel's optimizing compiler for faster encoding, but I don't think one is available for 02k. However, there is a cygwin32 build available on the home page.

Changes since 02i listed on the home page:

• File size for reading from stdin is now unlimited (used to stop at 4GB).
• The end of the bitstream is now fixed such that two mp2 files can be concatenated together.
• The DAB extensions now require an explicit size argument.
• Fixes to the psycho_1 model have hopefully stopped the crashing/segfaulting in this mode.
• A combined window/filter subband has given a speed boost.
• Reading of raw PCM files is now fixed to no longer skip the first 40 bytes.
• VBR mode is now stable. Read all about it. To summarise: to get a good range of bitrates, either use LSF (24/22.05/16kHz input will use a range of 8 to 160kbps) or 48kHz input (bitrate will range from 112 to 384kbps). For 44.1/32 kHz input, the bitrate can only vary within the range 192 to 384kbps.
• Lower sampling frequency (LSF) encoding now works with psy model 2
• 'talkativity' switch to control the messages that are output
• Speedups: small changes to psycho_i, psycho_ii
• Bugfix: better WAVE reading, default LSF bitrate correctly selected

[jolo]

I use toolame all of the time. Do you know if TMPG would have problems with it if set as a environmental varialble ?

Also, I sometimes use the toolame GUI. Do you know if that has been updated.

Thanks for the update.

Jon

[erzug]

I have been using toolame as my external layer II audio program in Tmpgenc for quite some time and it works great for audio conversion from 44.1K to 48K.

[sterno]

toolame works fine as an external layer-2 encoder in tmpgenc, though I haven't used the newer version yet. toolame doesn't do 44.k1->48k conversion, ssrc is the main tool for that.

toolameGUI is written by somebody else altogether, it probably hasn't been updated. But since it just runs the command-line toolame and the format of the arguments hasn't changed I imagine that it would work as well with the newer version as it did with the last.