>Taken straight from the cdex 1.30 beta1 help page, is this true with 3.85 ? does it really cause ringing artifacts with high quality on ? It has been right with a few betas in the past, but I think that now you can use the -h switch safely. Regards, -- Gabriel Bouvigne - France [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 12138873 MP3' Tech: www.mp3-tech.org -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http://geek.rcc.se/mp3encoder/ )