Guide to Ripping & Encoding High Quality MP3s

For some reason, the files are doing some funny things.

I ripped the audio off of a DVD. In Adobe Audition 2.0, I split the tracks up, did the fading and touching up, and kept the original WAV file. One of files, for example, has a length of 13:10. When I listen to it, it ends right on time! Hooray! Time to get it to a more convenient format.

Doing everything above, I produced the MP3s. But when listening and verifying they sound right, something's off. The length STILL says 13:10, however, it goes over that and ends a few seconds after it. It sounds exactly the same, though, but it's almost as if during the course of the song it managed to lengthen itself somehow. I also tried burning the WAV files onto an Image and ripping the image through EAC with the same result.

I was using the recommended LAME VBR command line and still, for some reason, get odd results. Any known reasons why?

Edit: I tried the CBR of 320 (-b 320), which also produced 13:10, but it ended at the right time. Seems there's a problem with my computer handling the VBR.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

It is WMP, actually, I'll try it out in other programs (should of did that in the first place, I assumed it was a bad encoding).

Hmm, does seem to work better now. It sounds exactly the same, don't know why it does that.

There's nowhere I can't reach.