Well Garbagegan2 wants to stick with iTunes it seems.

Use EAC and LAME myself, so I totally agree with you dogbreath

And just to really make it sink in for anyone reading through this thread

Never ever share anything that has been converted from a lossy codec to another lossy codec

Lossless to mp3 or wma or whatever is the only way.

And BTW make it 320 kbps

And changing the id3-tag to 320 does not make it 320