This might be a silly question but is there any way to use that with EAC? If so how? I'm running a dual Athlon XP 1600 rig and between EAC and Lame it takes about 2 minutes per song... 4 minutes if your running two instances at once.... I'd like to cut that down... as I could rip a whole album with xing in about 5 min (yeah sound quality sucked but it was fast, I realize the error of my ways and have seen the light)...

Also what are the pros and cons of using a variable bit rate?