DOS ain't dead

On 01 February 2009 I finished my 32-bit DOS port of LAME version 3.98.2 using DJGPP version 2.04 beta.

A binary, a user manual in ASCII format, and fully configured sources plus some simple instructions on how to rebuild are available at http://www.bttr-software.de/ports/.

About: LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL.

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> On 01 February 2009 I finished my 32-bit DOS port of LAME version 3.98.2



> A binary, a user manual in ASCII format



24 days passed, ZERO feedback, either I will break the silence or it won't happen at all

The good things:

+ it seems to work mostly
+ nice "GUI" (see shot)
+ there should be acoustic quality improvements (= less loss), unverified by me

Less good:

- faulty filenames, BLAH.WAV should become BLAH.MP3 and not BLAH.WAV.MP3, MP3 is always audio, there is no JUNK.BMP.MP3 or BLOAT.EXE.MP3 (but at least here the obvious - just giving output name - is sufficient to get it) (see shot)
- decoding doesn't abort (-> hangs) if there is not sufficient space for destination file (see shot)

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> Less good:
>
> - faulty filenames, BLAH.WAV should become BLAH.MP3 and not BLAH.WAV.MP3,
> MP3 is always audio, there is no JUNK.BMP.MP3 or BLOAT.EXE.MP3 (but at
> least here the obvious - just giving output name - is sufficient to get
> it) (see shot)
> - decoding doesn't abort (-> hangs) if there is not sufficient space for
> destination file (see shot)

Maybe I'll have a look at it, but I only did the port for the community as I don't use LAME at all. Love my FM radio!

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