clevijoki

I've seen a lot of comments about mp3 compresison artifacts, I'm not sure if some of you are aware, but the quality of the encoder you use greatly affects the quality of the mp3 you get.  If you use a 'high speed' encoder you will typically get lots of artifacts, no matter what bit-rate you use.  I wouldn't trust any encoder that comes with any software you buy either, typically they will include whatever they could get cheapest.

So if you're suffering from bad artifacts in your mp3s you should use something that supports LAME encoder (the best I've heard).  If you grab cdex (it's free) it comes with it.

CDEX is here:
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/