Yeah, I love working here at MusicMatch. We're really a great bunch of people trying to design the best jukebox for the music fan. (Bet that sounded like a marketing line, huh?)

I agree with you on the VBR setting. I had no idea what 1% was versus 100%. This, on top of the fact that empeg doesn't support the Fraunhofer VBR tags properly, led me to use EAC and LAME to do my VBR encoding.

Oh, and it's not the fault of empeg on the tag thing. Fraunhofer won't release the specs on their VBR headers. I actually asked the head of our programming team if we would ever consider letting people specify an outside encoder and he said possibly. It's definitely not on the slate right now, but maybe a little while down the road?