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Fraunhofer l3enc
was the first public software able to encode
pulse-code modulation
(PCM)
.wav
files to the
MP3
format. The first public version was released on July 13, 1994.
[1]
This
command-line tool
was
shareware
and limited to 112 kbit/s. It was available for
MS-DOS
,
Linux
,
Solaris
,
SunOS
,
NeXTstep
and
IRIX
.
[2]
A licence that allowed full use (encoding up to 320 kbit/s) cost 350
Deutsche Mark
, or about $250 (US).
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citation needed
]
Since the release in September 1995 of
Fraunhofer
WinPlay3
, the first
real-time
MP3 software player, people were able to store and play back MP3 files on PCs. For full playback quality (stereo) one would have needed to meet the minimum requirements of a
486DX4/100
processor.
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citation needed
]
By the end of 1997 l3enc stopped being developed in favour of its successor MP3enc.
[2]
Development of MP3enc stopped in late 1998 to favour development of a parallel
branch
FhG had been developing for some time, called Fastenc.
[3]
None of these programs are still marketed.
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citation needed
]
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See also
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- LAME
? free software codec used to encode/compress .mp3 audio
References
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