All the above have now been released and are available at Rarewares. The additions, bug fixes, etc., have all been enumerated in recent threads concerning each of them. Many thanks are due to those patient individuals who took the time to test and report their results.

Thank you john33... you are most helpful

Indeed! Ta muchly.

Cheers, Slipstreem.

Awesome! Thanks again for these great tools.

For your convenience, the aforementioned threads detailing what's new:

1. lamedropXPd3
2. Volumax/WaveGain

And likewise, thanks to the developers & distributors.

Thanks john33. I like lamedropXPd so much for its simplicity and convenience! Just tested it with FLAC input - it just works :-)

Two small things I want to add:

- On my machine (XP SP3) it has -V 8.31 (approx 78 kbps) set as (default) -V value on first startup, is this intentional? For more novice users a setting of V2.5 or V3 would possibly a better default setting in order to not make someone insecure.

- Would it be possible to see the file path in the progress bar from the end and not from the beginning? Usually the path is so long that the visible part is of no real use. The end part of the file path however would make the file name visible. And while I'm at it: When encoding long files where the progress bar is moving slowly forward one can't see the path at all, which is not so helpful. I think this is intentional but I'd favour to see the path fully from beginning to the end :-)