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...aphs - they both involve Vorbis encodes of 'Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place' from the album 'Kid A'. Both were generated with a datapoint smoothing value of 10 (read the code if you want to know what his means :) 1) http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/~jingram/ogg/bitrate-time/qualityvsmanaged.png This demonstrates quite well the differences between quality mode and managed bitrate mode. The track was encoded three times: 1) with -q 5, which averaged 181kpbs 2) with -b 160, which averaged 160kpbs 3) with -b 160 -M 160, which averaged 152kpbs. As you can see, -M enforces the bitrat...