LAME 3.xx                  LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder               http://www.sulaco.org/mp3	           October 1999Originally developed by Mike Cheng (www.uq.net.au/~zzmcheng).  Now maintained by Mark Taylor (www.sulaco.org/mp3).This code is distributed under the GNU LESSER PUBLIC LICENSE(LGPL, see www.gnu.org) with the following modification:1. If you determine that distribution of LAME requires a patent license,   and you obtain a patent license, you may distribute LAME even though   redistribution of LAME may also require a patent license.  2. You agree not to enforce any patent claims for any aspect of   MPEG audio compression, or any other techniques contained in    the LAME source code. ============================================================================see the file "INSTALL" for installation (compiling) instructions.  see the file "USAGE" for the most up-to-date guide to the command line options.see the file "LICENSE" for details on how to use LAME in non-GPL programs.see the file "HACKING" for some general codeing guidelinesThere is HTML documentation and a man page in the doc directory.The HTML docs were contributed by Gabriel Bouvigne (www.mp3tech.org).See www.mp3tech.org for more audio compression information and links.============================================================================LAME uses the MPGLIB decoding engine, from theMPG123 package, written by: Michael Hipp (www.mpg123.de) MPGLIB isreleased under the GPL, while MPG123 is released under a morerestrictive agreement.Various components are:Copyrights (c) 1999 by Mark Taylor: new psy-model, quantization and bit allocation Copyrights (c) 1998 by Michael Cheng:  new transforms and many other improvementsCopyrights (c) 1995,1996,1997 by Michael Hipp: mpglib