Blade Enc For Mac 1.4 Read Me

BladeEnc for Mac 1.4 ReadMe Free MP3 encoder for Macintosh Copyright © 1999-2001 Petteri Kamppuri Based on BladeEnc 0.92.6 Copyright © 1999-2001 Tord Jansson This program and all files accompanying it are subject to the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, see the file COPYING for more details. CONTENTS General Information Version Information Useful Information How to use Quick Start Settings Preferences Getting audio files from audio CDs Recording audio files Converting MP3 files to normal audio files Thanks The End General Information BladeEnc is a MPEG 1 Layer III (MP3) encoder based on the ISO reference code. It makes MP3 files from AIFF, WAV and raw PCM files. It supports many bitrates, from 32 to 320 kbps. Best of all, it's completely free with source code available. The author of the encoding engine is Tord Jansson. I have only made the Macintosh specific part. My program is a wrapper to the original BladeEnc. Its "around" the original BladeEnc encoding engine and it makes it possible to use BladeEnc on Mac. Because the original BladeEnc has only a command line interface, this wrapper was necessary to get BladeEnc to run on Macs. BladeEnc is free software released under the GNU lesser general public license. The license is in the file COPYING. See http://www.gnu.org/ for more details on the license. Read more about BladeEnc and it's features from the official BladeEnc homepage: http:// bladeenc.mp3.no/. Version Information 1.4 upgraded to BladeEnc engine 0.92.6, hopefully fixes crashing bugs at the end of encoding 1.3 fixed bugs related to spaces or other special characters in path or file names. Also updated preferences file format, not compatible with old versions. Please delete your old preferences file. 1.2 upgraded to BladeEnc engine 0.92, included many icons with the distribution 1.1 upgraded to BladeEnc engine 0.91 1.0 initial release Useful Information Requirements: MacOS 7.5.3 or later PowerMac 1.7 MB of free RAM Features: Many bitrates: 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256 and 320 kbps Drag & drop support (drag AIFFs or WAVs on BladeEnc to encode them) Full control over most original BladeEnc's options Free, GNU lesser general public license Some things to note: BladeEnc overwrites files with the same name as the output file Input file names must be less than 28 characters Cannot specify output file (mp3) name, though the original BladeEnc supports that Poor support for raw PCM encoding options Don't set BladeEnc's memory allocation below 1700 kB or it will crash. BladeEnc will try to encode any kind of file thinking they are RAW samples, if it can recognize it as AIFF or WAV. How to Use Quick Start Using BladeEnc for Mac is simple. Just drag & drop your AIFF or WAV files on BladeEnc application. This brings up a dialog for setting the encoding options (shown below). Just set them and press OK. Mo…