yeah check it out

Not this nation of rats and pigs.

$ lame audiodump.wav
LAME 3.98 32bits (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
CPU features: MMX (ASM used), SSE (ASM used), SSE2
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 16538 Hz - 17071 Hz
Encoding audiodump.wav to audiodump.wav.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (11x) 128 kbps qval=3
Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA
376700/3387420 (11%)| 10:24/ 1:33:39| [b]10:30/ 1:34:34[/b]| 15.746x| 1:24:03
---------21:50:47----------------------------------------------------------------------
kbps LR MS % long switch short %
128.0 1.9 98.1 96.8 1.9 1.3