I have to wonder if that isn't (wasn't) a bug with Audion. Nearly all of my library is encoded using LAME's VBR encoder, and I haven't noticed any bogus track length issues. iTunes certainly doesn't require AAC. (You can rip to VBR MP3 with iTunes itself; I've just gathered LAME's encoder is a bit better, and I have a script that lets iTunes call it directly, so it's fairly painless.)
...not that this observation helps you even if it's true, but, well.
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Date: 2006-11-20 04:56 am (UTC)...not that this observation helps you even if it's true, but, well.