a lot of the guesswork has been incorporated into the --alt-preset settings

Could somebody help me in how I can use these settings? I tried three different programs (EAC, RazorLame, and AudioGrabber), and they all want to set their own options for VBR. None of them wanted to let me provide my own command line options. The closest was EAC, which allowed me to specify additional command line options, but still required me to select a VBR bitrate.