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Softpedia™ is a growing file archive, referencing shareware, freeware, games and more. My Ogg-Vorbis encoder was tested by their lab and got the "100% Free Award", meaning Softpedia™ commits its name to guarantee that:
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Softpedia™ 100% Free Award

Softpedia guarantees that Ogg-Vorbis Encoder for Winamp 1.1+ is 100% FREE, which means it is a freeware product (both for personal and commercial use) that does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.

Validity of the award can be checked here. And yes, they really test programs themselves as they made their own screenshots of my encoder .

Maximum five stars mark at Softpedia

Besides, Softpedia users rated the encoder five stars out of five, the maximum possible mark.

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Maximum mark at telecharger.com

My encoder was reviewed at the maximum possible mark, five stars out of five.

Individual reviews

 A perfect encoder by Maimon Carter

I don’t understand why this doesn’t come bundled with WinAmp by default. It’s that good.

 Very good addition by Robin Tregaskis

Simple to install and use. Fast too!

 Wonderful plugin by Gaekwad 2

Simple and easy to use. No confusing ’legacy’ options (unlike a certain other encoder :p), just a quality slider. If you’re new to Vorbis start with quality 4 and move up or down depending on whether you’re able to hear a difference to the original.

 Good Prog by Tony Potato

really very nice one

 Great! why does it have a five star rating from the staff?... by Mike Bergstrom

This is so cool i hope to see more from you!

 Thanks by Bachalor

Thx for this freeware. Now I can convert OGG files with WinAmp.

 A great encoder. by Maimon Carter

I was wondering why winamp didn’t come with an ogg encoder. The one here is awesome! I’m using the experimental one from the user’s home page without a single hiccup. For those that don’t know it, ogg encoders can be free, since the underlying codec is totally free. Why other media players (ie: Microsoft media player and Apple iTunes) don’t support it is beyond me.

 n1 by Arseni Romanov

Nice job! I couldn’t help thinking how will do this....and you did!

 Excellent! by TufTuf Designs

This plug-in is excellent! It combines best of both: The quality is far better than mp3 (average of 64 kbit is almost as good as 128 kbit mp3) and in the highest quality setting, even the most trained ears won’t hear the difference! Also, it is way faster than ripping to mp3 Recommended to any WinAmp user!

Last but not the least... facts from the Winamp official website

My Ogg-Vorbis plug-in had the privilege to be selected and promoted in the frontpage of the Winamp official website for some months. Knowing there are about 3,200 plug-ins in the Winamp.com database, to be selected by the Winamp creators highlights all the qualities of my work.

Winamp official homepage, promoting my encoder

Besides, there has been 360,000 individual downloads for my encoder. That’s yet another performance, very few Winamp plug-in gets as much popular.

Winamp.com users rated me 4,5 stars out of 5; knowing 5 stars is mathematically impossible to get (because the Winamp staff never ever gives an initial 5 stars mark), that’s again very good.

By the way, after more than one year since Winamp 5 was released, I’m still the only developer on this planet to have written a couple of encoders for it. I don’t know how this can be analysed, but that’s another fact!