Hi Everyone,
I have been very surprised at the responce the LAME 3.0
(www.sulaco.org/mp3) posting had! Sorry for the frequent updates,
(3.0, 3.01 and now 3.02 in two days) but a lot of people have tried it
and emailed comments, bugs and fixes.
Here's a summary:
Warren Toomey tracked down a subtle variable initization bug
that only showed up under FreeBSD.
Several people found that I had broken mono encoding. fixed in 3.01
Jan Rafaj sent me a sample which showed a flaw in ms_stereo. LAME
would sometimes switch to ms_stereo even if the two channels
were being encoded with different block types. (fixed in 3.02)
This sample also shows the superiority of the FhG short_block switching
criterion - something that needs work in LAME.
Jani Frilander found a bug in the bit reservoir routines
that shows up if you have a lot of frames of all zeros. (fixed in 3.01).
Scott Manly send a patch to allow seeks on the input file,
(for front end programs that look for header information?)
added to 3.01.
Mike Oliphant increased MAX_NAME_SIZE to allow artist/disc/track format.
(set to 300 in 3.01)
At 128kbs or less, I remove the MDCT coefficients in the last
scalefacor band, as does the FhG demo encoder v3.1.
This amounts to a 16kHz cutoff. If you dont like this you can
now disable it with -k. (3.02)
