很快的，LAME 3.98 beta 8 出來了。

LAME 3.98 beta 8 April 13 2008
　Robert Hegemann:

• LAME now accepts a floating point value in the range [0,...,10[ as VBR quality setting, like -V5.678
• Found and fixed some suspicious code in additive masking calculation for VBR-NEW
• bug-fix:experimental code was defaulted by accident for VBR-NEW
• fix for some endianess problem on big-endian machines

比較重要的是第一點更新，VBR 增加小數點設定，可更自由的選擇位元率。