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mpegenc v0.07
mpegenc screenshot
Web Page Download (315 kb)
 
OS Windows 95 & NT..
Distribution Freeware
Pros Free mp3 encoder with it's own encoding engine. Produces excellent quality mp3s. It has a very nice and easy to use interface
Cons Very slow. It needs more than half an hour for a 3.5 minute song. But we must admit  that it is just version 0.07, and it has lot of potentials.

 

MP lifier v0.52
MP Lifier screenshot
Web Page Download (1056 kb)
 
OS Windows 95 & NT. Based on XingTeck TOMBG.EXE engine
Distribution Freeware
Pros Very fast mp3 Encoder. On P166 it takes less than a minute for each minute of song. Very nice interface too.
Cons Cut's the frequencies above 16 kHz, as a XingTeck's TOMBG.EXE front end.

 

MP3 Compressor v09.f
MP3 Compressor screenshot
Web Page Download (1056 kb)
 
OS Windows 95 & NT. Based on Fraunhopher's 32 bit CODEC.
Distribution Freeware
Pros The pros of Fraunhopher's CODEC; the best mp3 encoding engine from the inventors of the mp3 format.
Cons I L L E G A L . The setup program contains a full version of CODEC and installs it to your system directory, without paying a cent to Fraunhopher institute. So the author's page was forced to shut down and all the sites that were giving it have removed their links. You cannot download it from me and please don't mail me to send it to you. (If you want to search for it, it is distributed in a file called Mp3Compr09f.exe. Use FTP search engines like the ftpsearch.ntnu.no.)

 

L3Enc v2.72
Web Page Download (319 kb)
 
OS MS DOS, Windows 95 & NT, SGI, Mac and some others.
Distribution Shareware. Unregistered version allows you to encode up to 112 kbps. Registration costs $250.
Pros Produces excellent quality mp3s, without cutting anything. The fact that is a command line program, does not bother anyone, since there are many Windows front end programs for L3Enc.
Cons Slow 16 bit program.

 

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