I'm just a concerned Limewire/P2P user. I noticed that many mp3 files on the Gnutella network are encoded using sub-optimal or low quality mp3 encoders. If you are new to CD ripping, this website will show you how to rip satisfactorily high quality mp3s from a CD (most experienced users probably already know what "high quality" is):
http://www.users.on.net/~alexanderino/cdex/
The website will tell you how to use CDex (an audio extractor program) with LAME (a mp3 encoder engine).
From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAME [Wikipedia] :
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LAME is an open source MP3 (that is, MPEG-1 audio layer 3) audio compression application. LAME is a recursive acronym for LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder, although the current version is a stand-alone encoder. (See below.) The consensus (as of 2004) seems to be that LAME produces the highest quality MP3 files for (average) bitrates of 128 kbit/s and higher. In a public listening test early in 2004, 128 kbit/s LAME MP3 files were the least detectable when compared to uncompressed audio.
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