[Ulala]

Good to know, I'll google for exact instructions, thanks. What is VBR file size like?

[ZylonBane]

God, how I love these threads. Always great for pointing and laughing at the "golden ears" loons. Shouldn't you guys be out shopping for mahogany volume knobs and deionized speaker cables?

[Ford Prefect]

What?

[Ulala]

Ooooooo, mahogany.. pretty... 

[jr2]

Good to know, I'll google for exact instructions, thanks. What is VBR file size like?

VBR0 gets 3-4 Megs / song, if I remember right... depends on how complex the song is.    Try googling audiograbber, it has a LAME interface... then you just have to google LAME, version 3.96, stick lame_enc.dll in your audiograbber directory, open audiograbber, click "MP3"... set the settings, hit "create an MP3 now..."  (I think you can also do this from the file menu.)

EDIT:  Oh, and, of course, it helps you to be able to tell different sound qualities apart if you aren't half-deaf from having the volume on max. all the time...    (Also, cheaper speakers/headphones always distort at these volumes, even some of the more expensive ones aren't at their best under that kind of stress.)

[perihelion]

@ Ulala:
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LAME  Scroll down a bit and it talks about average bit-rate for various VBR "quality" settings.  Mileage may vary, yada yada...

[NGTM-1R]

I think anything beyond 192 kbps is just placebo, no matter how good your hearing is.

Depends. To be fair, the comparison of 192 and 256 made earlier is true insofar as it goes for me. Most of the time I cannot tell the difference. I can tell the difference between 192/256 and 320, however.

God, how I love these threads. Always great for pointing and laughing at the "golden ears" loons. Shouldn't you guys be out shopping for mahogany volume knobs and deionized speaker cables?

It's much cheaper to steal them from you. After all, your manifest superiority entails you having bought them at great expense, and the expression on your face is always priceless when you find they are gone.