Re: Free Audio converter and Download Accelerator
2014/02/21 06:16:43
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Got me curious about this. My last info (though maybe dated) was that Fraunhofer was doing a shotgun legal approach on any developer offering an mp3 converter without paying them a fee. This is what forced dbpoweramp to go from freeware to payware.
I know that codecs and other library dll's are often written to the windows system or system32 folders to be accessed by any program needing the file.
You're probably right about LAME though, since the program would have to assume you already have it installed if it doesn't add it to system.. Thought LAME was he only open source encoder. Have a question in to the folks as to what they are using and how they avoid the Fraunhofer penalty.
Will get back for information sake. Only thing that matters is that the program works well, it's free and covers the main converters most any of us need to deal with. Thanks again for posting this. A real gem.
John