To be honest it's the first time I've re-encoded in a while. Originally I ripped a disc at a time when I needed it. Before I had the empeg and before my homebrew carplayer I didn't see the point of having my music collection on MP3, if I wanted to listen to a CD I played it on my stereo, and if I wanted to take it with me on the move I used to put it on minidisc and play it on my ancient MZR-30.
It's only recently I bothered to encode everything and I didn't think that razorlame could recurse folders for encoding.