That’s why the Audacity developers don’t include it and you have to get it somewhere else. If you distribute an MP3 decoder encoder (including LAME) you are supposed to pay a royalty to Fraunhofer.There are open source formats such as OGG Vorbis or FLAC but they are not as widely supported as AAC, MP3 or WAV. I’d guess that more than 90% of the MP3s in the world are made with LAME.Īpple (and Microsoft and other software & hardware manufacturers) pay Fraunhofer and if your MP3 players are “legal” the manufacturers are paying Fraunhofer too. LAME is considered one of the best MP3 encoders, and although MP3 is patented* the standards are published. Apple paid money to all major mp3 player makers to disable all mp3 formats except for Fraunhofer which is impossible to get for open end users like myself.
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