LameXP is a GUI for the LAME MP3-encoder.The fact that it provides you with a GUI makes it much more comfortable to use than LAME because LameXP's user-interface has been designed to be as simple as possible and it uses the new WindowsXP style.LAME gives you the best possible quality/compression, provides lots of function and works very fast. The original LAME MP3-encoder is available from the official homepage (www.mp3dev.org), but it's only available as a console application. Such console applications are very flexible, but most users prefer to work with GUI (graphical user interface) applications. LameXP Features: Creates MP3 (MPEG 1.0 Audio-Layer III) files Provides the highest possible MP3 quality/compression-rate Supports PCM Wave-Audio files, MP3 files and raw PCM files Supports bitrate-based and quality-based compression Supports variable bitrate MP3 files and avarge bitrate encoding Supports Mono, Stereo, Joint Stereo and Dual Mono Supports ID3 Tags (ID3v1 and ID3v2) Supports Resampling and Stereo/Mono Downmixing Supports varoius encoder quality/speed modes