TooLAME is a free software MPEG-1 Layer II (MP2) audio encoder written primarily by Mike Cheng.
After leaving leadership of the LAME project, Mike Cheng decided to redirect his efforts towards the MP2 format.
In October 1999, he started over from scratch, instead basing TooLAME on the more capable ISO Dist10 reference implementation,[1] and substantial code from LAME.
Cheng repeatedly resisted the addition of features like libsndfile integration for support of a much wider variety of input formats.
[4] TooLAME utilizes the highly tuned psychoacoustic model developed for LAME, but applied to MP2 audio encoding, instead.