LameXP is a graphical front-end for the LAME MP3, Ogg Vorbis and Nero AAC audio encoders. Supported input types are Wave, MP3, MP2, OGG/Vorbis, FLAC, MP4/AAC, AC3, DTS, WavPack, Musepack, Shorten, Speex, Monkey´s Audio, TTA, WMA. It also reads M3U, PLS and ASX playlists as well as Cuesheets.

The easy-to-use interface supports multiple languages, including English, German, Spanish and Italian.

Batch processing is implemented and multi-threading will be used, if several processors/cores are available. The Nero AAC encoder is *not* included, but it´s available from the Nero Webseite as free download. All encoder binaries that ship with LameXP have been kindly provided by Rarewares.org.

What´s New in version 4.03:

• Added an option to rename the output files (based on an user-defined naming pattern)
• Added an option to enforce Stereo Downmix for Multi-Channel sources
• Added ´built-in´ WMA decoder (see this for details) and removed all remnants of ´old´ decoder
• Added optional support for the FHG AAC Encoder included with Winamp 5.62 (see FAQ doc for details)
• Added a menu for bookmarking ´favorite´ output folders to the ´output folder´ tab
• Added an option to hibernate the computer (aka ´Suspend-to-Disk´) instead of shutting it down
• Added Polish translation, thanks to Sir Daniel K
• Added channel equalization options to the normalization filter (also fixes multi-channel processing)
• Added indicators for current CPU usage, RAM usage and free diskspace to the processing window
• Updated Qt runtime libraries to v4.8.0 RC-1 (2011-10-13), compiled with MSVC 10.0
• Updated LAME encoder to v3.99.1 Final (2011-11-05), compiled with ICL 12.1.6 and MSVC 10.0 (details)
• Updated mpg123 decoder to v1.13.4 (2011-09-07), compiled with GCC 4.6.1
• Updated MediaInfo to v0.7.51 (2011-11-11), compiled with ICL 12.1.6 and MSVC 10.0
• Updated language files (big thank-you to all contributors !!!)
• Improved ´downmix´ filter by using explicit channel mappings for each number of input channels
• Fixed a potential bug in CPU type detection that might have caused the wrong binary to be used
• Fixed Cue Sheet import for tracks with certain characters in the title
• Fixed a bug with ´Prepend relative source file path to output file´ under certain conditions
• Workaround for malicious ´anti-virus´ programs that prevent innocent applications from functioning
• Enabled ´Aero Glass´ theme in installer and web-update program (Vista and Windows 7 only)
• Restored Windows 2000 support with Visual Studio 2010 builds (this is experimental!)
• The ´Open File(s)´ and ´Open Folder´ dialogs will now remember the most recent directory
• Miscellaneous bugfixes