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How to install :
1) Unzip and Run 'AASETUP.EXE'

Nice one igNorAMUS :)
A really big thanks to Spelunk, Zenta, IB3o3, Ianx, RickyJ, JakeX,
Taurus, Ism, and Audi0!

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Review from Taurus :
Audioactive Production Studio is suprisingly fast. On my 266 i encoded a 4min
wave file into a 128kbps mp3 in less than 2.5mins. But the best part is the
high end stays very clean, nothing gets washed out at all and the output is
true to the source. Also there's some nice support for 8 to 256kbps bitstreams
and control over cpu priority. By far the best mp3 encoder I have ever seen.

Review from igNorAMUS : 
This is IMHO the best MP3 encoder you can have. It uses the Frauhofer IIS
encoding routines - the same like MP3 Producer V2.1.  That means the quality
is great. But unlike Producer even the GUI rocks.

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Some helful notes about MP3 CODECs :
There are a few 'flavors' of the Fraunhofer IIS codec -
Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec Professional  (up to 128 kbps stereo)
Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec Advanced      (up to 56 kbps stereo)
Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec decode        (decode only function)
(You can see which ones you have installed in Win95 by going to
Control Panel > Multimedia > Advanced > Audio Compression Codecs)

Audioactive production Studio doesnt use an external codec for its encoding
at all - It uses all internal routines which is how 256 kbps rates are
possible. However, by default, Audioactive usually installs the Fraunhofer
'decode-only' codec so that the MP3 preview function will be available.

With this release, we've made the setup install the the full professional
codec instead. Although its not needed for Audioactive, it means you will
now also be able to encode MP3 using programs like WinDAC and Soundforge
too.  Hope you enjoy it!

