Features of Blade Enc: - Can be compiled for nearly any operating system still in use. - Commandline based, makes it easy to include BladeEnc into BAT files and shell scripts. - Only mp3 encoder that supports gapless encoding. - Reads standard uncompressed WAV- and AIFF-files as well as well as RAW PCM-data. - Batch encoding. Can encode any number of samples in a row. - Wildcards supported. You can for example encode all WAV-files in a directory by typing "*.WAV". - Input samples can be automatically deleted after encoding. - Large selection of graphical frontends available. -Task priority can be set from the commandline and is by default set to LOWEST so that you still can use your computer effectively while encoding (Windows & OS/2 only). - Full support for pipes and redirection (stdin and stdout). - Textbased configuration file where you can change default settings.