CD-RW.ORG created a new article called 'LAME pushes MP3s further with the upcoming 3.89'
LAME, the ultimate MP3 encoder, brought MP3 to a whole new level of quality with the 3.88 version. It took months for LAME to update from 3.87 to 3.88, but since the 3.88 the development pace has been furious. Biggest changes implemented so far is the new default VBR mode which provides about 100% speed improvement and improved Joint Stereo algorithms. |
For some reason the MP3 scene likes to stick with the old Fraunhofer encoder with 192kbps/stereo settings. This amazes me since LAME encoder has outperformed the Fraunhofer ages ago, somewhere around the 3.6 - 3.7 versions-that is well over a year ago. Equally amazing is that the scene continues to stick with 192kbps encoding, while all modern encoders utilize VBR for quality improvements.
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