2020-01-11 /10:56
lid:
Where can I find the authentic site for Razor LAME?
A couple of sites which Google threw up are;
https://www.free-codecs.com/download/razorlame.htm
https://lame.sourceforge.io/
What is the main development / release / distribution site for Razor
LAME? Is there some other LAME package which I should use instead of
Razor?
Thank you.
The Sourceforge project page seems to be as official as it gets - BUT it
is rather intended for programmers, who want to compile the *source
code* themselves.
Yes, there´s a .bat file included in the .tar.gz to encode from, but
there are more comfortable ways to use the LAME codec.
https://lame.sourceforge.io/links.php
lists quite a few programs for various OS, which use the LAME codec -
just assume, they didn´t change anything in the actual codec code...
My suggestion is still the same as 1 week ago:
get "LameDropXPd", as it is IMHO the easiest and quickest method to
encode LAME MP3 files under Windows
- it has the latest LAME version
- is freeware (and absoluteley harmless)
- just works as expected
- it can even batch encode multiple file you drop on its window, at once
or after each other, while another file is being processed.
- does NOT require installation or does anything to Windows´ registry
After 15+ years of use, I have not yet encountered a situation, where
the resulting files could not be played, so it should be safe enough for
creating MP3 files to embed in HTML pages and compatible to most systems.
Just set all options to maximum quality and Constant Bit Rate and
everything should be fine - if you want samller file size, reduce
encoding quality, until there is an acceptable ratio between sound
quality and file size.
If you insist on using "dead" (as in no official website or development
anymore) software llike RazorLame, that´s your choice. For myself, I
would rather use software like Lamedrop, which at least gets updated
every few months or years, shortly after a new version of the Lame codec
is released - and also puts only 2 files on my computer rather than a
whole folder.
just go ahead, try it and hopefully be happy with it and get the actual
job done! ;-)
Phil