i really don't remember, the rates i mentioned were for illustrative purposes, most of them were done with MC9/10 a year to two years ago and i have no idea what they are anymore, thus my problem.
i'm currently re-ripping and encoding with preset fast extreme, so it would be nice if i could even just tell these new ones apart from the older variable bitrates but it doesn't seem possible.
how does anyone actually compare vbr files if you can't tell what 'max' bitrate was that they were originally encoded at? it seems a rather obvious thing to store in the file instead of an 'average', which as far as i can see would be pointless on vbr files.
Because the Max value wouldn't tell you any more than the average does. If a really simple piece of music
were to be compressed even with a high quality VBR setting, the max number of bits per second could end
up really low because the bit patterns could be compressed so easily.
On the other hand a really complex piece of music could end with a fairly high Max Bit rate even tho using
a low quality setting, simply because that much information would be needed to represent the complex changing patterns.
All that could be added to the current information is the actual settings used with the encoder, which
would require extra tag info...
You could put your new files in a seperate place on your drive....
or use a slightly different naming technique...
Not Ideal admitidly...