Dibrom&JohnV -how you see the future of LAME? Options

[FinCoder]

Topic should be:Dibrom&John and others, how do you see the future of LAME?

So tell me. I wanna know.

This post has been edited by FinCoder: Nov 30 2002, 03:36

[JohnV]

Difficult question. It's no doubt difficult time for Lame now that lots of new code by Tak will be incorporated into official Lame in 3.94.
I know one thing.. The next release shouldn't be rushed. I also know that many people will always use the latest versions, so I want to help make sure, that it doesn't turn into complete quality disaster. The 3.93 release woke me up to think what really could happen if nobody does testing anymore.
One reason why Lame testing has recently diminished is --alt-presets. On the otherhand it's very good; you don't see newbies posting insane switch-sets anymore. On the otherhand everybody is/was expecting that --alt-presets just keep uptodate, and the floor kinda collapsed, when Dibrom announced he doesn't continue with Lame.

I personally just want to help so that 3.94 and further do not turn out to be quality disasters. If at the same time some people can find even better working switches which can be incorporated into --presets, the better. But the danger is that we may start to see the "newbie wild lines"=insane switch sets, if we do this thing publicly. Nobody wants to go back to the situation where people without too much knowledge how Lame works, posted hundreds of "best" Lame commandlines.