LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to improve the psycho acoustics, quality and speed of MP3 encoding. Note: we provide source code only!
Birne is a CD burning program and acts as a frontend for cdrecord and mkisofs. It is written in Python around the pygtkmvc framework and has a nice Gtk+ interface. Major design goal is simplicity and clarity.