Readme file for RazorLame 1.1.5 =============================== What is RazorLame? -----------------RazorLame is a so-called front-end for use with LAME.

LAME is a great MP3-Encoder: it's very fast, it produces high-quality files, has many advanced features (like Variable Bitrates and Joint-Stereo), and it's open source. Unfortunately, it is a command line utility, and that is where RazorLame comes in: it provides an easy-to-use graphical user-interface which makes MP3-encoding even easier! You can find more about LAME at http://www.mp3dev.org/ ========================================================== Holger Dors, 12.12.2001 E-Mail: Razor.Blade@gmx.net Web: http://www.dors.de/razorlame/ ========================================================== Release History --------------Legend: (+) Added feature (*) Improved/changed feature (-) Bug fixed (hopefully) Version 1.1.5 (12. December 2001) (+) some GUI features: font selection, XP-like menus and toolbars, support for XP Themes (*) enhanced & nicer histogram display (*) progress dialog remembers if histogram was shown (+) double click on listview entries starts associated program (*) Application Title now shows batch progress (*) Status Bar shows current LAME setting (*) added more option files which are similar to the presets of LAME 3.90 (-) yet another try to fix the "average value missing" bug (-) should fix problems with large fonts (-) fixed decimal-point problem for rlo files (-) some smaller changes and bug fixes Version 1.1.4 (12. April 2001) (+) Added some option files. Thanks to Gabriel Bouvigne of http://www.mp3-tech.org for providing them! (-) Now handles the "use source" checkbox for the output directory correctly (-) histogram is now displayed correctly for all VBR/ABR modes (-) Summary line for ABR/VBR ("average bitrate") is finally added to log for all cases. (I hope...) (*) Files > 2 GB are correctly displayed now, however, progress isn't displayed on large file for now

(-) some smaller fixes Version 1.1.3 was an internal-only release and is now the base for 1.2.0, which is currently developed. Current source of 1.2.0 can be obtained through CVS at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/razorlame Version 1.1.2a (26. March 2001) (-) Added some messages to RazorLame.dat, as there was trouble with some popular compiled versions of lame 3.88 beta Version 1.1.2 (21. January 2001) (+) If LAME outputs a histogram during encoding, RL can now display this histogram graphically as well. (+) You can now set the default priority of the encoding thread. (+) You can now choose what RL should do if "shutdown Windows when done" is checked. Options include Hibernate, Suspend, Log Off, Just close RL, Reboot, and of course, shutdown. (+) You can now save option settings in a file. And of course load them again ;-) (*) The progress window is now resizable. (*) The option dialog is now splitted in a "program" options and a "LAME" options dialog. (*) The LAME options dialog now always show the resulting LAME switches without the need for pressing a "show" button. (*) You can now move columns of the listview. However, layout of listview isn't stored yet. (*) "View Log" window now has a "delete log" button. (*) added support for "--athshort" and "-q" switches. Added a "default" mode for the channel modes. (*) hopefully the output directory option is now more intuitive. (-) RL now uses less CPU time (i.e. it updates the progress window only once in a second, when in tray it updates it only every ten seconds.) (-) fixed problems with some mp3 files (e.g. "trimmed") when decoding or re-encoding (-) Probably more smaller fixes I cannot think of right now. Version 1.1.1 (29. October 2000) (*) better handling of LAME 3.87 beta (*) Nicer application icon and toolbar images, thanks to Jan Hryz <jan.hryz@email.cz> (*) You can now delete files after decoding as well! (*) Improved listview, shows associated icon and type (*) Improvements for handling a lot of files (*) some smaller, rather cosmetic changes (-) "-B" option was ignored for ABR Version 1.1.0 (20. August 2000) (+) You can now decode mp3 files using LAME! (Needs at least version 3.84!) (+) added support for --abr (average bitrate aka Safe VBR) (*) Some system stuff is now read from a *.dat file This allows for a bit more flexibility in regard of future LAME versions. (*) Hints are now visible for 10 seconds so those

in the options dialog can be better read (*) When sorting paths, use filename as second sort criteria (*) Same small, rather cosmetic changes (-) fixed a bug when entering an output directory without a trailing backslash lead to unexpected results Version 1.0.2 (02. July 2000) (+) new advanced option: delete file after encoding (+) When VBR is used, show bitrate histogram on log (if encoder version outputs it!) (*) Progress dialog now also shows elapsed time for batch (-) when no output directory is given, encoded file is stored where input file is (-) making it impossible to set the quality in the VBR tab of the options higher than 9 (-) Delete 0 byte output files after an error occurred Version 1.0.1 (25. June 2000) First public release. Some bug fixes, some improvements. Version 1.0.0 (06. June 2000) First semi-public beta release