<<On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:20:05 -0400, Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net> said: > Besides, VBR MP3's are quirky as hell in some players - I don't trust > them. Joint stereo doesn't sound as good to me, either. Why not use an open, unpatented codec, like Ogg Vorbis, which many people (I am not qualified to judge) performs better in VBR mode than MPEG-2 Layer III at comparable CBR bitrate? -GAWollman