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2024-02-03:
Abandonware updates
A new year arrives, so I come back here with some updates that
have been abandoned by their own authors (in most cases here:
FhG)
It has been more than 25 years since Fraunhofer released MP3enc
(do you feel old yet?). As they probably do not care anymore,
I added full licensed versions of it (v 3.0 and 3.1) to the
MP3enc page, courtesy of the great F.O.S.I. guys.
I also created a page for FhG MP3 producer - the source of
all those pirated FhG ACM codecs that were floating around in
the late 90s which helped MP3 explode in popularity. Again,
25+ years old programs that I suppose FhG already forgot.
I uploaded to the CoolEdit filters page the two FhG MP3 encoder
filters because... why not?
Since I was already neck-deep in Fraunhofer stuff, I added
another ACM codec version to the respective page: v3.3
And as we're talking about ACM codecs: I added a new page
featuring QDesign's i-Media and ACM MP2 encoders.
2023-12-12:
The 20 years celebration!!
SO you thought ReallyRareWares was dead? Not at all! I'm here
again to provide you one of our traditional holidays update and,
a little bit late, celebrate 20 years providing really
hard to find pieces of software!
The main attraction of this update is the super obscure NTT
DualSpeech voice codec (thanks to William Hobbs).
Besides, I updated the Fobar2000 page with a few older versions
and each version's release dates, both thanks to Benjamin Pahlke.
Also, all new releases from version 1.5 up to 2.0.
Additionally, I moved all Foobar2000 v0 versions to another
page because the main one was becoming too unwieldy.
See you all in 2024. Or whenever I collect enough goodies to
justify another update...
2020-10-23:
The holidays update
To close this year, a nice little update to wrap up 2020 and hope
for a better 2021: the Liquid Audio encoders and players, what we
had to put up with to enjoy a little AAC in the late nineties.
Big thanks to Max Telkov for contributing these! See you all in 2021.
2020-10-20:
Another bunch of goodies
An update with several goodies provided by Martin Wagner and
other lovely visitors of ReallyRareWares!
- Electronic Cosmo MP3 encoder (thanks to Stefan)
- EAQUAL objective audio quality measurement tool (thanks to Martin Wagner)
- WinMusic audio player for Win3.1
- Several Gogo versions (thanks to Martin Wagner)
- Tag and Wapet taggers (thanks to includemeout)
- Psytel AACenc Public Evaluation Versions (thanks to Martin Wagner)
Also, I added information about each lossless compressor's performance,
with plans to soon add several formats missing from the list. My so-called
"limited tests" consist of compressing Bob Dylan's album The Times They
Are A-Changin' and comparing how each compressor performs.
2020-08-20:
Another quarantine update
It seems the quarantines here in Brazil will never end (5th month
already), so here are a few updates to try and keep spirits high:
- Sony SonicStage
- ACM Station ACM codec frontend
- EncSpot 0.9 (thanks to includemeout)
- A handful of very early Apollo versions
- Nullsoft DOSamp 0.7 + DOSamp Extender
- CoolEdit 1.30A
2020-06-19:
Just another update
An update with an assortment of new goodies, most of them
contributed by the lovely RRW visitors:
- Shorten lossless compressor and mkwACT (thanks to Marco Pontello)
- MP3 Jukebox - a featureful player for Win 3.1 (thanks to Arthurro Ludvicco)
- MixMP3 line-in recorder (thanks to Zachary Jelesoff)
- Real Jukebox Plus (thanks (?) to Richard Birch)
- More versions of Nero AAC Encoder (thanks to Martin Wagner)
- YAMP 3.2 (thanks to Daniel Kozar)
- Other versions of Blade for Mac OS Classic
2020-05-16:
Special Mac OS Classic update
I came across an impressive cache of vintage Mac OS audio
software, so I decided to dedicate this update to the early
days of audio encoding on the Macintosh. Check these out:
- MPecker/MPegger/N2MP3 encoders
- MPEGAudioCreator - the CD ripper that became AudioCatalyst
- AudioActive player
- Older versions of AudioCatalyst
- Iomega RecordIt
- Two full versions of Emagic Zap lossless compressor
2020-04-25:
The quarantine update
Time for another update, to entertain the RRW fans during these
hard quarantine days. This is what I got for you:
- A whole new page dedicated to FhG codecs - for ACM and QT
- nyaochi's ACMENC ACM codec frontend
- Another version of Nero AAC Encoder, contributed by Michael Leimer
- Better text and another Musearc version for its page
- Super old Apollo 9, contributed by Daniel Kozar
- K-Jöfol 0.5, also contributed by Daniel Kozar
I also updated several screenshots, trying to show how the programs
looked in real-world usage and not just "out of the box".
2020-04-12:
Special Easter/Coronavirus/Zachary update
Long time RRW contributor Zachary Jelesoff dusted off his old
storage media and contributed lots of rare exhibitions for our
museum, so this update is dedicated to his honor.
And these are the updates:
- MicroHof MP3 Player
- Thirteen Apollo versions!
- CoolEdit 1.53
- LAME 3.97 for DOS
Also, I added to the SoundVQ page a mail exchange (also provided
by Zachary) between Yamaha and K-Jöfol developer Christophe
Thibault that demonstrates Yamaha's short-sightedness promoting
their own format...
Please check older news here.
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