I found this excellent site with information on mp3 encoding, and will be using his recommendations for re-encoding my CDs with VBR thru lame (currently they're lame 160k CBR, I'm re-encoding just to have a fresh start with a slightly higher, VBR bitrate, as well as more useful ID3 info).

http://users.belgacom.net/gc247244/index.html

However, this person is somewhat opposed to ID3 v2 tags, according to the following page:

http://users.belgacom.net/gc247244/index.html

I was wondering what others thought of his stance. Obviously going without ID3 is not an option on the empeg, but the lack of gapless play with ID3 v2 made me think..

- reid