just looked at Ares P2P just for kicks tonight and realised the obvious - I am far too picky on audio quality to even touch a CBR MP3. I did not even look at files below 192kbps,and would really prefer to see MP3 (if it has to be that format) files encoded with LAME 3.90.3 using at least --alt preset standard .
would much rather grab music from a free legal source in a lossless format (
link)- shorten is easy enough to transcode to flac or something more useful. Obviously those file sizes are not so friendly to dialup users or people low on HD space though.