1 BladeEnc was started by Tord Jansson as a project to make a decent, free
2 encoder for high-bitrate MP3 encoding, heavily based on the ISO source code
3 for a reference encoder. Since then it has developed into a free software
4 project (Open Source) with many contributors:
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7 Project initiator and maintainer:
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9 Tord Jansson <tord.jansson@swipnet.se>
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14 Andre' Piotrowski Numerous improvements to the MP3 encoding routines.
15 Jeff Squyres Maintains MPI port (now discontinued), various contributions.
16 Petteri Kamppuri Maintains MacOS port.
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35 Frans E. van Dorsselaer
55 Stephen from Minnesota
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58 People who helped port BladeEnc to different architectures before it went
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61 Trevor Phillips, Zac Livingston, Jon Coyle, Alexey Marinichev
62 Mikael Kjellström, Steve Burns, Markus Ridinger, Giao Nguyen, Joel Fredrikson
63 Marca Registrada, Rob Braun.
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67 The ISO reference sourcecode credits the following people as its developers
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70 Bill Aspromonte, Shaun Astarabadi, R. Bittner, Karlheinz Brandenburg
71 W. Joseph Carter, Jack Chang, Mike Coleman, Johnathan Devine, Ernst Eberlein
72 Dan Ellis, Peter Farrett, Jean-Georges Fritsch, Vlad Fruchter, Hendrik Fuchs
73 Bernhard Grill, Amit Gulati, Munsi Haque, Chuck Hsiao, Toshiyuki Ishino
74 Masahiro Iwadare, Earl Jennings, James Johnston, Leon v.d. Kerkhof, Don Lee
75 Mike Li, Yu-Tang Lin, Soren Neilsen, Simao F. Campos Neto,Mark Paley
76 Davis Pan, Tan Ah Peng, Kevin Peterson, Juan Pineda, Ernst F. Schroeder
77 Peter Siebert, Jens Spille, Sam Stewart, Al Tabayoyon, Kathy Wang
78 Franz-Otto Witte, Douglas Wong.
82 IF YOU BELIEVE THAT I HAVE MISSED SOME CONTRIBUTOR IN THIS LIST, PLEASE E-MAIL
83 ME (tord.jansson@swipnet.se) AND I'LL CORRECT ANY MISSTAKE!