See the screenshots on the left for an example. High quality Variable Bitrate encoding settings LAME is currently the only MP3 encoder optimally tweaked for Variable Bitrate encoding unlike Fraunhofer and which does not mess up like Xing. That is the reason why I do not recommend the usage of the LAME DLL for Variable Bitrate encoding. You better use the external executable version of LAME . It makes the encoder rely more on the psycho-acoustics model, yielding less bits for the same quality.
Joint stereo is used.
But this only applies to the Fraunhofer and Xing encoder. LAME offers perfect tweaked joint stereo encoding. When you are sure the settings are correct for your needs click the OK button. EAC is now configured to extract to high quality MP3 files. See Extracting Tracks To Your Harddisk for more information about this.