MP3 freeformat bitstream support

[Sarreq Teryx]

actual lossless ratios against 640kbps MP3 and 512kbps Vorbis using:
song: Natalie Imbruglia - Impressed
source: fressly ripped from CD using EAC

code:


18,197,632B   512kbpe OGGVorbis (OggDropXP at CBR512)    2.792:1

23,052,538B   640kbps MP3 (LAME --freeformat -b640 -k)   2.204:1

37,037,856B   Monkey's Audio Extra High                  1.372:1

37,409,229B   RKAu                                       1.358:1

37,619,663B   WavPack                                    1.350:1

37,757,915B   LPAC                                       1.345:1

40,190,537B   Shorten                                    1.264:1

50,819,296B   Original size of Wave file                 1.000:1

By that, it's obvious that what I said before about the lossless codecs being ~2:1 was way off, they don't come anywhere close. and they all sound absolutely identical and by visual waveform (open in soundforge or something similar and zoom in) they are identical also

Twilightseer:
I know MAD works, but it doesn't come with the package (minor), and it doesn't support unicode filenames or ID3v2 tags (both of which I use, so major)