Hi there Cyrill!

Replying to a message of Torsten Balle Koefoed to Cyrill Vakhneyev:

 TK>>> For MP3 encoding the best choice is BladeEncoder, which you'll find
 TK>>> at http://bladeenc.home.ml.org/. There's also the old port of the
 TK>>> Fraunhofer L3enc, but the sound quality does not match with
 TK>>> BladeEncoder. I don't know if it's faster, though.

 CV>>     BTW really thing is LAME for OS/2.

 TBK> Yes, I just DL'ed it, but I haven't had time to test it.

I've tested a little and it seems that the quality of the encoding is
marginally better in some cases.

I write "it seems" because it's difficult to hear with sound quality reducing
factors such as a very noisy computer, my lousy SB AWE 32, and a very long
crap cable from the sound card to my amp. An interesting test could be to
encode with the different encoders, decode to wav again, and then burn on a CD 
to test it in a CD-player with the computer turned off. But I'm not shure I'll 
be interested in wasting the (limited) amount of money on a CD for that test.
;-)

Yours etc.
  Torsten Balle Koefoed 

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