vbr mode is like that one iirc, if the part of the audio doesnt require such high bitrate to encode, then it will stay at lowest bitrate as set by user during transcoding.

and depend on audio player u use, some player will only show average bitrate, instead of dynamic bitrate info.

u can try mine config:

abr 134 -h --nspsytune --athtype 2 [--lowpass 16] --ns-bass -8

hmm, custom command line options is not recommended, unless u know what are u doing
and abr 134 is... quite a low bitrate setting.

duh its depend on settings, and i seldom use mp3 encoder
highest quality settings for lame mp3 encoder = --cbr 320 -h lol
if this one cant satisfy u, use lossless codec instead?

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Added on March 10, 2008, 6:38 pm
ok, but if u are using the bitrate settings from above with ur custom command line, the audio quality would be mess up, correct me if im wrong

actually wat is the  'normal cd' song file? its not mp3 nor wma... if i can find the type of file it uses, prolly i can use some converter to convert my mp3/wma files into... .cda?