MP3: VBR may be better than CBR

[mellody]

For people who don't care about this long statement, just pick your vote and stop replying "don't care" or something, it's just unreasonable.
Please appreciate the one who made this thread and statement, reply with better sentence or something more useful, even if you didn't really understand.

I'm a big fan of VBR!
If you have very sensitive ear, I believe you can hear the difference.
First, this is why I love VBR more than CBR, and this is the clearest reason :

• 320kbps CBR filesize is always bigger than V0 VBR.
• Most of the time, quality of VBR files is better than 320 CBR.

In VBR, for most of the songs, I can hear the lowest depth of the sound, compared to 320kbps. Sometimes there's a part where the sounds is clearer than normal CBR, especially bass, VBR has genuine quality for bass tune and such.

If you need to compare, then If you have a sensitive ears, try listening this songs, and compare the VBR version and CBR version, you can hear the difference :

Spoiler:

Ayumi Hamasaki - Free & Easy
Ayumi Hamasaki - Don't look back
L'Arc~en~Ciel - STAY AWAY
Kalafina - Hikari no Senritsu
Do As Infinity - Rakuen
The Beatles - Come Together
The Beatles - Love Me Do
Utada Hikaru - Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro
Utada Hikaru - First Love
Vanessa Mae - Toccata & Fugue In D Minor
Bond - Shine

Actually it's so many, but those list is enough I think.

Well, not only the list, but most of the songs, I believe.

Talking about filesize, VBR is better.
You can save up to 5MB per songs.

If you need to compress MP3 to VBR, try this command-line options for the best results using LAME :

%l-V 5%l%h-V 0%h --vbr-new %s %d -q 0 --replaygain-accurate --clipdetect -b 192

This option makes the minimum bitrate for the files is 192 and maximum is 320, the best results you can get from every songs.

For CBR, the bitrate remains constant, and it's useless actually, I can't explain it clearly but it's the fact, so VBR is better.

It's my opinion why I choose VBR instead of CBR