That's not how I remember it but it was a long time ago and memory is unreliable so I won't claim that my statement is a fact. But I remember a period of time

That's not how I remember it but it was a long time ago and memory is unreliable so I won't claim that my statement is a fact. But I remember a period of time where basically every rip was VBR. 192kbps then took over when bandwidth and disk space were no long were no longer concerns.