"Some last notes: Windows Media Player now freely supports encoding to MP3 from CD. Unfortunately, it uses the inferior Fraunhofer codec. iTunes, however, does not use the Fraunhofer codec. Despite some recent confusion, it turns out Apple wrote their own MP3 encoder for use in iTunes. Unfortunately its quality is much worse then their AAC encoder or other free MP3 encoders. Regardless, WMP does not support VBR encoding, and iTunes doens't use LAME, and LAME is what all the cool kids are doing, so I recommend you use LAME. It's just better."
Is
this still true? From this article, sounds like I'll regret not burning in VBR at least, and maybe MP3 VBR is the way to go if I don't want to get invovled in the AAC vs WMA aka "Which player will you marry?" issue.