BladeEnc is a free, cross-platform, console-based MP3 encoder, based on the ISO reference code. It is mostly intended for high quality encoding in high bitrates.
| Tags | multimedia Sound/Audio Players MP3 |
|---|---|
| Licenses | LGPL |
Recent releases


Changes: A very uncommon crash on certain WAV files has been fixed. Modified FFT calculations that produce the same output and should be slightly faster (your mileage may vary) have been added.


Changes: This release includes various quality improvements, some memory leak fixes, improved compiler & OS compatibility, and project/make files for various non-unix OS/compiler combinations.


Changes: A fix for a batch encoding bug, quality and speed improvements, a rewritten autoconf system, some code cleanup, an improved compiler and system support, etc.


Changes: Backports of safe optimizations from the unstable branch for a speed increase, and some minor improvements.


Changes: Safe improvements backported from the 0.93.x unstable branch, some speed improvements, support for gapless encoding, autodetection of most systems during compilation and setting of defines accordingly, and updates to the manual and installation instructions.
- All comments
Recent commentsDoesn't lock display and runs nicely in background now...
Comment about bladeenc locking the display is only valid for very old versions of BladeEnc. BladeEnc now runs nicely in the background as well if you use the -quiet switch or change the progress indicator (-progress=[1-8]) and redirect output to a file in order to supress terminal output.
lame encoder
hey, you arent sposed to advertize on boards like that, are you? anyways tell us how it is better.
BladeWrapper added to the appindex
BladeWrapper is now available from my page at http://helllabs.org/~claudio (http://helllabs.org/~claudio/). It has also been added to the appindex to allow easy update of the URL should it be necessary.
Download link is wrong...
It points to older 0.72 version. There are new 0.76 on
the same directory though.
Running bladeenc in background
I don't know if it happens only with me but I haven't seen anyone complaining about problems with SIGTTIN/SIGTTOU running bladeenc. Anyway, I don't like to leave a display locked for days while encoding a large batch of files in a slow machine so I wrote a very simple wrapper to allow me to run it in background. It is available at http://www.linuxbox.com/~claudio/bladewrapper.tar.gz (http://www.linuxbox.com/~claudio/bladewrapper.tar.gz).