weskeene

Agreed with Leif on rates: 384 is excellent (very few ears on this planet could tell it from PCM), anything lower is noticeable to my ears, and probably others.

Another poster mention prohibitive licensing costs. That is not correct. Layer II is free for your use. It gets confusing because MP3 is the version that cannot be used without Fraunhofer runtime codec licensing (which is included in some professional codec products, like Omnia AX/E).

Hope this helps.

Wes