I'd disagree with you as far as the ID3v2 spec goes. I've got some problems with it (namely in the sorting fields), but it seems pretty solid. Is there any reason you wouldn't want to be allowed to have lots of metadata? Or do you have a problem with its implementation?

LAME's nogap with VBR/ABR doesn't work for me. In your prior post, you said that it didn't seem to help, at least not much, so I'm confused. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, though. Basically just ``lame --nogap 1.wav 2.wav 3.wav'', making sure that the input files are in order.

I'd like to have Ogg Vorbis. As far as I know, the only person ``working'' on this is Russell King, the lead of the Linux ARM arm (hah), and it was mentioned only in his diary only a few times.