About winLAME

winLAME is an easy to use encoder for many audio formats, including MP3, Opus, Ogg Vorbis and more. winLAME uses the LAME mp3 encoder.

winLAME lets you read in audio tracks from CDs or encode audio files from your hard drive. The intuitive wizard-style user interface makes it easy to set up encoding settings. Multicore CPUs are used to parallelize encoding tasks.

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2023-12-29 - winLAME 2023 release 1

Today I released winLAME 2023 release 1, which corresponds to the build number 2.23.1.141. The release contains the following updates since the version "2021 release 1":

The following new features are included:

added support for entering disc number and replacing %disc% in CD track title (#8)
added CD extract setting to open the CD tray/eject the CD after reading (#9)

The following bug fixes are included:

fixed creating 8-bit FLAC files with preset "FLAC lossless from 16 bit audio" (#5)
fixed always setting the genre field of mp3 files to Blues (#6)
fixed wrong mp3 file duration time in VBR mp3 files due to wrong placement of LAME VBR Info tag (#7)
fixed wrong bitrate when encoding to WMA in CBR mode (#10)

The following encoding library were updated:

LAME 3.101 beta 2 (SVN r6507)
mpg123 1.31.3
libsndfile 1.2.2
taglib 1.13.1
libopus 1.4
FLAC 1.4.3
libspeex 1.2.1
libfaad2 2.10.1
Monkey's Audio 10.22

To download the new version, head over to the Download page.

2021-12-30 - winLAME 2021 release 1

Today I released winLAME 2021 release 1, which corresponds to the build number 2.21.1.108. The release contains the following updates since the version "2020 release 1":

library updates: LAME 3.101 beta 2 (SVN r6505), mpg123 1.29.3, libsndfile 1.0.31, taglib 1.12, BASS 2.4.16.7, BASSwma 2.4.5.13, libogg 1.3.5

The following bug fixes are included:

fixed crash when converting wma to mp3 (#3)
fixed creating subfolders when the track title contains a / character (#4)
fixed using correct number of worker thread at first start of winLAME after a fresh install
fixed crash when trying to download cover art

To download the new version, head over to the Download page.

2020-12-27 - winLAME 2020 release 1

Today I released winLAME 2020 release 1, which corresponds to the build number 2.20.1.92. The release contains the following updates since the version "2019 release 1":

library updates: vorbis 1.3.7, opusfile 0.12, mpg123 1.26.4, libsndfile 1.0.30, libfaad2 2.10.0, Monkey's Audio 5.70 and BASS 2.4.15
replaced obsolete freedb server with gnudb.gnudb.org
removed toolbar and menu; only ribbon menu band is used now

The following bug fixes are included:

fixed crash when decoding mp3 files
fixed reading FLAC picture tag

To download the new version, head over to the Download page.

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