Comment 55 for bug 195483

KennonVO - I think that you will find that my settings do in fact use
the GStreamer lamemp3enc and NOT what you call 'broken lame',
which can still be installed and used or mis-used by other ripping
tools, yet which I have not recommended as misquoted by you,
whilst the xing encoder is yet another animal that I have used in the
past, post fraunhofer and it's not too bad.

Incidentally, in view of misleading reporting by tools and even players
like VLC, simple checkmp3 does a better job of analysing mp3 files,
but you may prefer trying mp3diags now that Win EncSpot isn't
readily available.

At the end of the day, subjective assessment by those with keen
hearing using decent reproduction kit, like Sennheiser 'phones is
probably the best arbiter as to what's acceptable CD-like quality.

Bruce R