Log Message:
Update to 3.99.3:

LAME 3.99.3   November 26 2011

    Robert Hegemann
        Fix for tracker item [ 3441349 ] --tg does not handle genre number when \ 
adding unicode tag

LAME 3.99.2   November 18 2011

    Robert Hegemann
        Due to some bugs in 3rd party HW/SW decoders, those were not be able to \ 
make use of LAME's extended info tag anymore, resulting in problems with things \ 
like gapless playback.

LAME 3.99.1   November 5 2011

    Robert Hegemann
        Fixes for several issues with ID3v2 unicode tags, using Big-Endian text \ 
encodings. Because of several other software (like Windows Media Player), LAME \ 
writes Little-Endian unicode tags only.
        Thanks to Taihei Monma, for reporting these issues. Tracker items: [ \ 
3431203, 3431222, 3431241 ]

LAME 3.99   October 15 2011

    3.99 beta 1 becomes 3.99

LAME 3.99 beta 1   not yet released

    Robert Hegemann
        Fix for Bugtracker item [ 3395813 ] id3tag_set_fieldvalue for URL link \ 
frames Broken
        Fix for Bugtracker item [ 3368977 ] Wave Parser doesn't pad chunks
        Fix for Bugtracker item [ 3034259 ] confusing fatal error: can't update \ 
LAME-tag frame!

LAME 3.99 beta 0   not officially released

    Josep Maria Antolín Segura
        Documentation work
    Rogério Brito
        Improve Debian packaging.
            Include suggestions made by Fabian Greffrat
            Update version of the Debian package to reflect that it is taken \ 
from CVS.
            Get rid of a transitional package
            Much more to come...
        Minor fix to validate the history file correctly
    Robert Hegemann
        Porting of LAME mp3rtp program to Windows platform
        Fix: for free format mp3 above 320 kbps, the maximum allowed bits was \ 
limited too far.
        Changed behaviour: LAME replaces common suffixes by MP3/WAV when no \ 
output filename was given. For example, a simple lame x.wav will create output \ 
file x.mp3
        UNICODE support on Windows OS, file names and ID3v2 tags; related: \ 
Bugtracker item [ 3052230 ] Lame.exe can't find files with non-ASCII names
        Added support for WAVE FORMAT IEEE FLOAT input files
        New switch --swap-channel added, see tracker item [ 1118412 ] RFE: \ 
option to swap L and R channels
        New switches -m l and -m r to select either left or right channel for \ 
mono encoding.
        Feature request item [ 3134258 ] Allow larger images with LAME (>128KB)
        Fix for Bugtracker item [ 2962223 ] Encoder delay and padding values \ 
ignored when re-encoding
        Fix for Bugtracker item [ 2986823 ] Error when building Lame with NASM \ 
support -still exists
        Fix for Bugtracker item [ 3125235 ] make -f Makefile.mingw32 fails
        Fix for Bugtracker item [ 3021935 ] ID3 tag TXXX cannot be used more \ 
than once
        Fix for Bugtracker item [ 3025801 ] gain_analysis.h needs int constants
        Fix for Bugtracker item [ 3277412 ] Segmentation fault at layer2.c:105 \ 
with --decode
        Changes in new VBR code:
            tuning on PSY model
            tuning on VBR scale and resulting bitrates
            Minor bug fix for sfb21 encoding
        All encoding modes use the PSY model from new VBR code, addresses \ 
Bugtracker item [ 3187397 ] Strange compression behavior
        Fix for a possible out of bounds array access in HIP decoder, addresses \ 
Bugtracker item [ 3091776 ] crash at III_dequantize_sample

LAME 3.98.4    March 22 2010

    Joseph Flynn
        Improvements for LAME DirectShow filter:
            Added support for the DirectShow IAMStreamConfig Interface to the \ 
LAME encoder filter output pin.
            Modified the DirectShow filter registration section so that the LAME \ 
Encoder filter is correctly registered in the Audio Compressors filter category. \ 
This will allow third-party encoding applications using the DirectShow System \ 
Device Enumerator Interface to correctly detect the LAME encoder when querying \ 
the Audio Compressors filter group.
            Modified the filter registration information so that the MP3 audio \ 
subtype is correctly reported as being supported on the encoder output pin. This \ 
will allow third-party encoding applications using the DirectShow IFilterMapper2 \ 
Interface to recognize that the LAME encoder supports MP3 output.
            Altered the Filter Merit Value that was being used when the filter \ 
was registered so that it is now using the standard DirectShow compressor filter \ 
merit value of MERIT_DO_NOT_USE (0x200000). Previously, the filter was being \ 
registered using a value of MERIT_SW_COMPRESSOR (0x100000), which was at a lower \ 
priority (i.e. worse priority) than MERIT_DO_NOT_USE. This prevented the LAME \ 
Encoder filter from being selected for use by some third-party encoding \ 
applications.
            Added code to calculate the frame length of the audio frames used \ 
for the nBlockSize element of the WAVEFORMATEX output structure. Previously this \ 
value was simply hard-coded to 1.
    Robert Hegemann
        Fix for Bugtracker item [ 2973877 ] A problem regarding the new drain code

LAME 3.98.3    February 27 2010

    Rogério Brito:
        Update the debian packaging for the new release.
    Robert Hegemann
        The ignore-tag-errors switch had no effect when embedding album art, fixed.
        Library API change: lame_decode functions are now obsolete but still \ 
present, please use hip_decode instead. The reason for this change is: \ 
lame_decode functions use a single global variable within the library to store \ 
decoder setup, hip_decode functions don't. The encoder now uses hip_decode \ 
internally and it is now possible to use clipdetect feature while reencoding mp3 \ 
to mp3.
        Workaround for FFMPEG bug, which uses to call lame_encode_flush more \ 
than once in a loop.
        Windows: program icon and version info added (when building with VC9)
        Fix for Bugtracker item [ 2688413 ] lib name problem in Microsoft Visual \ 
Studio 6
        Fix for Bugtracker items [ 2051870, 242365tracker item [ 2723518 ] \ 
resampling in 3.98 and 3.99alpha
        Fix for Bugtracker item [ 2891879 ] Because of Windows API change, there \ 
was a problem with the prority switch.
        Fix for Bugtracker item [ 2893101 ] Access Violation in BladeMP3EncDL0, \ 
ships with MS Windows): enabling the new-drain-code seems to solve that issue \ 
better, than restricting the buffer size (see below: 3.98 beta 1, May 16 2007).
        Patch submitted by Bernhard Doebler, tracker item [ 2807676 ] Error when \ 
building Lametem [ 2406420 ] compile lame_enc.dll under cygwin