> > I am looking for a way to properly license the mp3 technologies from > Thomson without spending $10,000. I am intereted in using the LAME > library in conjunction with Audacity in our University computer labs. We > run a language lab and want to allow students to be able to record their > voice on the computer and give their Professors a disk with thier > recordings for the Professor to listen to and evaluate. We can pay a > reasonable fee to allow those recordings to be legally encoded as mp3 or > we can stick with wav for recordings. I am hoping that someone on this > list can point me to a company which can sell me the required licenses to > use LAME with Audacity to record mp3s. I have sent Thomson an email but > I don't expect to hear from them since I am probably clasified by them as > a "end-user". > > Sante' Jonker > IT Manager > ALTEC (Anderson Language Technology Center) > University of Colorado at Boulder >
You could try purchasing some commercial software which comes with a licensed version of lame_enc.dll, and then just use the dll with other software. You would probably even be justified in upgrading to a newer version of the dll. There is a list of commercial software which *supports* lame at www.mp3dev.org/mp3/links.html, but this is not very complete and I dont even know if any of those products actually include a fully licensed version. But I think there was some discussion recently about a German product which came with a fully licensed version lame (and the "delux" version came with FhG instead of LAME :-) It has been suggested a couple of times that we try and find a company with an mp3 license that could then sell licensed versions of lame_enc.dll, but there is probably not enough interest to make any money doing this. Mark _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
