Interesting. Tried using VBR to encode with CDex. Even dropping the min.
bitrate down to 40K resulted in a file size only marginally smaller than my
usual 160K.

Haven't really assessed for quality yet but seems to sound similar. btw I
tried a slow, Ry Cooder track, pretty varied range.

Jim.

"Roberts" wrote in message
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Jim Murray wrote:
192Kbps, as one of the players I use my mp3s in seems to be a little
poor at buffering VBR files.

What would be the advantage in using VBR?

http://www.geocities.com/altbinaries...r-encoding.htm
http://www.nathansheldon.com/xp-80/what_is_VBR.html

S.