winLAME is an encoder for several audio formats, including mp3 (MPEG Layer 3), Ogg Vorbis and more. winLAME lets you set up the encoding process with an easy-to-use wizard-style user interface.

winLAME supports many input audio formats, and uses the LAME mp3 coding library for encoding and the MAD decoding library for decoding.

Note that personal and/or commercial use of compiled versions of the LAME encoding engine (including the DLL distributed with winLAME) requires a patent license in some countries. Check before using winLAME!

More documentation can be found in the winLAME HTML Help File that was installed along with winLAME (only in the full installer).

Features:

• Encoding and decoding of many audio formats, including:
  • .mp3 via LAME mp3 encoder (encoding) and MAD (decoding)
  • .ogg Ogg Vorbis
  • .aac via libsndfile
  • .wma via Windows Media Audio codec
  • .flac via FLAC library
• Uses LAME features, including:
  • high quality and optimized mp3 encoding
  • nogap encoding of continuous-mix-cd's
  • optimized 3DNow! and SSE routines
  • ID3 v1 and v2 tagging
• Easy-to-use wizard-like user interface style for easy encoding setup
• CD Audio extraction (aka. CD ripping), including freedb support
• Presets for fast settings setup
• User interface translations to english and german language
• Batch Processing
• Detailed HTML Help File
• Easy install- and uninstall process
• Small size

What's New in version 2009 Beta 2:

• The about page showed a blank page.
• When a playlist was written, the playlist file only contained the last encoded file.
• When converting to Wave format, the comboboxes showed no drop-down list.
• Fixed a crash when reading an mp3 file that contained invalid ID3v2 tags
• Fixed crash when a freedb query for a CD returned multiple entries
• Fixed transferring genre field to encoded files
• Fixed reading and writing tags for WMA.
• Fixed installer that didn't install correct msvcr80.dll and msvcp80.dll
• Fixed bug where track numbers was always set to the same value and genre field was always set to "Blues"
• Fixed bug where the ID3v2 tag always contained a large length value
• Added a patch from Adam Kropelin that provides reading FLAC metadata when converting from FLAC files.
• Updated BASS and libsndfile libraries to latest versions