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:

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Project initiator and maintainer:
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Tord Jansson <tord.jansson@swipnet.se>

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Major contributors:
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Andre' Piotrowski		Numerous improvements to the MP3 encoding routines.
Jeff Squyres			Maintains MPI port (now discontinued), various contributions.
Petteri Kamppuri		Maintains MacOS port.



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Contributors:
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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

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People who helped port BladeEnc to different architectures before it went
Open Source:
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Trevor Phillips, Zac Livingston, Jon Coyle, Alexey Marinichev
Mikael Kjellström, Steve Burns, Markus Ridinger, Giao Nguyen, Joel Fredrikson
Marca Registrada, Rob Braun.


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The ISO reference sourcecode credits the following people as its developers
and contributors:
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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!
