BladeEnc is no longer actively developed..

[dreams]

Taken from their website..

A new and completely free technology for compressed audio has finally been completed. Ogg Vorbis is technically superior to mp3, with a quality/size ratio on par with the latest technology, and completely free from patent and royalty claims.

http://bladeenc.mp3.no/skeleton/news.html

[notbob]

thats ok, since LAME has been the quality standard for the last 2 years anyway (especially with high end vbr)

[123_kid]

i'm not really going to miss it but it brought me good memories. i remember using "audiograbber" to rip. i was (was?) too cheap to register it so it only let me rip like 5 tracks at a time so i had to refresh it to copy more tracks. and using bladenc to encode back in the day. too bad the sound quality was...horrible.