BladeEnc was started by Tord Jansson as a project to make a decent, free encoder for high-bitrate MP3 encoding, heavily based on the ISO source code for a reference encoder. Since then it has developed into a free software project (Open Source) with many contributors: =============================================================================== Project initiator and maintainer: =============================================================================== Tord Jansson =============================================================================== Major contributors: =============================================================================== Andre' Piotrowski Numerous improvements to the MP3 encoding routines. Jeff Squyres Maintains MPI port (now discontinued), various contributions. Petteri Kamppuri Maintains MacOS port. =============================================================================== Contributors: =============================================================================== Mikael Kjellström Kevin Doherty Milan Hodoscek Wesley Hosking Jon Watte Dmitri Kalintsev William Thompson Olaf Pueschel Marc Schefer Lennart Börjeson John DuBois Jeremy Prior Frans E. van Dorsselaer Roger Fujii Robert Schlabbach Marco Amrein Vitor Sessak Serg 'Ice' Tsyganenko Rich West Ben Slusky Simon Burge Brad Matt Craven Paul Cantrell Petter Reinholdtsen Paul Martin Troy Engel Chris DeLise Sadruddin Rejeb Mauro Manfrin Rob Ekl Jeffrey Hawk Stephen from Minnesota =============================================================================== People who helped port BladeEnc to different architectures before it went Open Source: =============================================================================== Trevor Phillips, Zac Livingston, Jon Coyle, Alexey Marinichev Mikael Kjellström, Steve Burns, Markus Ridinger, Giao Nguyen, Joel Fredrikson Marca Registrada, Rob Braun. =============================================================================== The ISO reference sourcecode credits the following people as its developers and contributors: =============================================================================== Bill Aspromonte, Shaun Astarabadi, R. Bittner, Karlheinz Brandenburg W. Joseph Carter, Jack Chang, Mike Coleman, Johnathan Devine, Ernst Eberlein Dan Ellis, Peter Farrett, Jean-Georges Fritsch, Vlad Fruchter, Hendrik Fuchs Bernhard Grill, Amit Gulati, Munsi Haque, Chuck Hsiao, Toshiyuki Ishino Masahiro Iwadare, Earl Jennings, James Johnston, Leon v.d. Kerkhof, Don Lee Mike Li, Yu-Tang Lin, Soren Neilsen, Simao F. Campos Neto,Mark Paley Davis Pan, Tan Ah Peng, Kevin Peterson, Juan Pineda, Ernst F. Schroeder Peter Siebert, Jens Spille, Sam Stewart, Al Tabayoyon, Kathy Wang Franz-Otto Witte, Douglas Wong. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT I HAVE MISSED SOME CONTRIBUTOR IN THIS LIST, PLEASE E-MAIL ME (tord.jansson@swipnet.se) AND I'LL CORRECT ANY MISSTAKE!