Yeah, I use EAC & LAME as well. Explaining those is beyond my ken, at least if I wanted to sleep. If changing MMJB to 20kHz & 192k doesn't help, then I think he can rule out encoding as the problem. The difference between those and LAME's Alt-preset -standard is not going to be _hugely_ noticable, at least not for the casual listen.

I've found MMJB to be mighty poky with 5300+ tunes (still using Winamp 2.80), but I still find MMJB's 'Supertagging' to be mighty useful though.

-Zeke