LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL. LAME development started around mid-1998. Mike Cheng started it as a patch against the 8hz-MP3 encoder sources. After some quality concerns raised by others, ... branch (a patch against the reference sources) became Lame 2.0, and only on Lame 3.81 did we .... Free download of LAME MP3 Encoder 3.99.2