Following the great history of GNU naming, LAME originally stood for LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME started life as a GPL'd patch against the dist10 ISO demonstration source, and thus was incapable of producing an mp3 stream or even being compiled by itself. But in May 2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were replaced, and now LAME is the source code for a fully GPL'd MP3 encoder, with speed and quality to rival all commercial competitors. Click on Read More... for more information and to see what is new and download links. Click here for download. Go here for more information. What's new with LAME 3.92 released on April 14 2002: Alexander Leidinger: add non linear psymodel (compile time option, disabled by default), workaround a bug in gcc 3.0.3 (compiler options, based upon suggestions from various people, see archives and changelog for more) Steve Lhomme: ACM wrapper (MS-Windows codec) Steve Lhomme: less memory copying on stereo (interleaved) input Takehiro Tominaga: Inter-channel masking, enables with --interch x option For buggy versions of gcc compiler (2.96*), back off on some of the advanced compiler options