Okay, sorry. I still don't run 3.x. It seemed to keep crashing on me. Maybe I'm misremembering.

Still, it relies on ad-hoc LAME-"proprietary" headers, which weren't even introduced until late 2001, I think. Point being that it would be nice if the standard had the ability to encode arbitrary-length audio. (Well, without intentionally blank samples. Even CDs have to be in quanta of 44100ths of a second.) It's the spec that should have the fail attached to it in this case, IMO.