my first test of lame 3.86b will be the gattaca soundtrack. i’ve decided to tweak my settings a bit:
-h --vbr-old -V 1 -b 128 -m j --add-id3v2
i’ve upped the minimum a bit, sticking to the old vbr code which i’ve been using, but also switching from regular to joint stereo and adding id3v2 tags. less work to do in helium and mp3ext that way. (eac is the last part of my rip/encode setup, in case anyone’s interested)