The "padding out to full frames with silence" issue is a valid issue, but it is not related to our current discussion of the bit reservior.

If you have encoded an entire CD as one huge MP3 file with no track splits, then split that file on frame boundaries, then the padding issue is worked-around. However, the bit reservior issue is not worked around.

C'mon people, get up to speed on this stuff, K?
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Tony Fabris