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Blade MP3 encoder

Blade was an open source MP3 encoder developed by Tord Jansson. It started as a compile of the dist10 sources but soon Jansson started tweaking speed and quality, mostly at high bitrates (around 192 and 256kbps)

It never supported the more advanced features - such as variable bitrates, tagging, and free format - that can be found in LAME and other encoders.

Development officially ceased on 2002-08-11, although by then an year had already passed since the last update. The developer recommended users switch to Ogg Vorbis.

A mirror of the official page is available at the Internet Archive. You can check the entire changelog here. And you can also find pre-compiled versions of Blade for an insane amount of platforms at the Binary Distribution Point.


Date: 2001-05-08
Version: 0.94.2
Interface: Command line
Platform: Win32
Download: blade0942.zip - 140kB

Date: 2001-03-07
Version: 0.94.0
Download: blade094.zip - 93kB

Date: 2001-01-19
Version: 0.92.7
Download: blade0927.zip - 178kB

Date: 1999-12-31
Version: 0.91
Download: blade091.zip - 160kB

Date: 1999-07-22
Version: 0.82
Download: blade082.zip - 118kB
Kindly contributed by ViPER1313

Date: 1998-12-17
Version: 0.76
Download: blade076.zip - 100kB
Kindly contributed by SacRat

Date: 1998-11-27
Version: 0.75
Download: blade075.zip - 199kB
Kindly contributed by SacRat

Date: 1998-09-14
Version: 0.72
BladeEnc for Mac Download: blade072.zip - 107kB

Date: 1998-07-06
Version: 0.60
Download: blade060.zip - 108kB


Petteri Kamppuri created a Mac OS Classic version of the encoder. Since this operating system does not have a native command line interface, Petteri managed to place Blade's command line output inside a window of its own. Input is done through the open dialog (File -> Open).

The web site can still be visited at the Internet Archive.

Date: 2001-01-22
Version: 1.4 (Blade 0.92.6)
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Mac OS Classic (PPC)
Download: blademac14.sit - 529kB

Date: 2000-10-25
Version: 1.3 (Blade 0.92)
Download: blademac13.sit - 596kB

Date: 2000-04-07
Version: 1.2 (Blade 0.92)
Download: blademac12.sit - 587kB


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