We are confident that your results will be identical to ours. It uses the LAME encoder and the most recent version of the program uses the current version on LAME, version 3.100. Just search for 'Beyond Fear' To encode in MP3, the program that was used was Fre:ac.

Both the FLAC and the AAC versions of those 2 tracks are available on this site. If you would like to verify the results, please feel free to do so. It literally is the modern improvement of the MP3. Download speeds are no longer an issue and the format was designed for both high quality lossy audio and compression. AAC was also made in a different era for a different era. All of the early limitations of the MP3 were corrected with AAC, like achieving a higher quality lossy version at a lower bitrate, something the MP3 could never do. The AAC format was designed to be the successor of the MP3. The files were smaller and could be downloaded easier and in less time.

This is also the reason why it became immensely popular during the early days of dial up and peer to peer sharing programs like napster. The MP3's goal was to make an acceptable copy of the original audio file while reducing the size of the file. Sharing large FLAC files was out of the question at those speeds. The MP3 was designed during the era of dial up internet, where connections were slower than what they are now. The purpose of the MP3 was compression, streaming and sharing. The biggest misconception of the MP3 format is that it was designed to make high quality lossy versions of lossless audio files. NB : I'm wondering if it would not be 'nicer' to let users play with -tv option and just let them add frames they want (ie no test at all, rather than doing all sort of customs in id3tag_set_textinfo_utf16.The spectrum images are 100% legit. I have not added an entry in the MiscID enum like ID_PCST = FRAME_ID('P', 'C', 'S', 'T') b/c I think this is not a multiframe ID so it is probably not needed to test that elsewhere It adds a frame using the id3v2_add_ucs2(gfp->internal_flags, frame_id, 0, 0, text) If (isFrameIdMatching(frame_id, FRAME_ID('T', 0, 0, 0))

) I can confirm that by doing the following change So, after getting able to re-compile lame under C++Builder (that was a pain, but I 'used' to be BCC developer.

Xld mp3 encoder lame 3.99