Re: [TANGO-L] Tandas at the speed of a mouse click

[Stephen Brown <Stephen.P.Brown @DAL.FRB.ORG>]

Apparently, I misread.  It does appear that i-tunes has an implementation
of VBR that is regarded as inferior to LAME.
http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/encoding.ars
>>Some last notes: Windows Media Player now freely supports encoding to
MP3 from CD. Unfortunately, it uses the inferior Fraunhofer codec. iTunes,
however, does not use the Fraunhofer codec. Despite some recent confusion,
it turns out Apple wrote their own MP3 encoder for use in iTunes.
Unfortunately its quality is much worse than their AAC encoder or other
free MP3 encoders. Regardless, WMP does not support VBR encoding, and
iTunes doens't use LAME, and LAME is what all the cool kids are doing, so
I recommend you use LAME. It's just better.
Generally speaking, VBR is better than ABR is better than CBR. But
remember, there will always be people telling you that your way sucks, no
matter what you do. It is inevitable. I'd probably be one of them if you
were encoding to MP3 using anything but LAME. ;)<<

With best regards,
Steve (de Tejas)