Lame Front-End 1.3

Rated 10/50 by Bighugs at Apr 30, 2008

"Almost Perrfect" I have been writing code for years and just recently came up with a lame front end program that works really well. This blows it away. This is what I have been striving for. This is what I call I programers perfect toy. Nothings perfect. I'm jealous. Maybe I should work on something else?

Rated 50/50 by Maenad at May 1, 2008

"Awesome sauce!" An excellent front-end for Lame with a plain, functional, easy to use GUI, I?m impressed. Lame.exe is already installed, *no need to hunt for it and Lame FE 1 does use the current 3.97 full release* writes ID3 v2 tags for mp3 output and supports drag and drop. There are two modes, simple and expert. The automatic simple mode won?t satisfy most users but the expert mode is so easy to switch to and use, after switching just click on LAME/load LAME settings and make your choice before using the tabbed LAME settings option. The expert mode is definitely one of the easiest I?ve ever used. I thoroughly recommend Lame FE 1 to anyone who wants to use Lame with minimum hassle, it?s great. =)

Rated 50/50 by caenet at May 1, 2008

"GREAT" Highly customizable. Allows for much better mp3 encoding than anything else I've found. I wish mp3»mp3 transcoding were possible.

Rated 20/50 by roj at Jul 20, 2008

Does not save or recall program and LAME settings between sessions automatically. Help file in Polish only. Pretty poorly thought out GUI and feature set. Not worth using at this time RazorLame, despite its display incompatibilities with LAME 3.98, kicks its ass. Badly. TWO stars.

Rated 10/50 by SueAmma at Jan 18, 2009

Sorry, I don't read Polish! The help file is critical unless you are an .mp3 expert. I will test it if the help file ever gets written in English.

Rated 50/50 by kenwylie at Nov 28, 2009

"Very helpful for batch conversion to mp3." I have only used it to convert wav to mp3, but so far it has worked well. You do have to specify where the lame.exe file is located. This software provides a graphical, user interface; it does not actually encode by itself. The help file was not helpful. I was looking for a small program that could do batch encoding. This does that well, and it is also relatively easy to change important settings.

Rated 40/50 by singapurr at May 28, 2010

I need good compression (about 16) for speech and this is so simple to use. It allows custom bit rates from 8 to 320 using a slider. I wish it could rip direct from a CD, which is how we do our live recordings. Now I need to rip the CD to WAV before MP3 conversion. It's good that, unlike Audacity, you don't have to separately install LAME. Audacity is certainly for the "power user", but this software can't be beat if all you want is a user-friendly interface for simple MP3 output. For my needs, it's better than the Pazera Free Audio Extractor as I couldn't figure out how to set low bit rates with that one.

Rated 10/50 by spartain at Jul 21, 2010

None because it won't install for me to try it. It won't install on my windows 7 (64-bit) system. No installation guide. An installation guide would have been nice, especially as it would have assured me if I'd done everything correct. However, there are just two .exe files in this download, and I tried running both just to make sure. I unpacked the downloaded files and ran the installation file (Lfe.exe) and it wouldn't install, and it wouldn't run. What I kept getting was an alert saying: Exception ERegistryException in module Lfe.exe at 0002525B. Failed to set data for ". Hopeless!

Rated 40/50 by bigrob621 at Jan 29, 2011

very easy to use this with the recorder program that i down loaded only took a few minets to start to use nothing bad yet great program