Ok, you need 0.04% improvement, that should not be a problem. Try flac --lax -e -p -l 32 -r 10 --no-padding
Thank you again, Miroslav. I tried that, and it took almost two full days (surprisingly, Windows ME stayed up that long without crashing) to re-encode the entire set on my 266-MHz machine. After all, in the help file Josh gives us fair warning that a couple of those options are slow. But thirty-eight of the forty-six tracks came out larger than they had in my original attempt at the -8 preset (both groups were compared after stripping all metadata and padding except STREAMINFO and SEEKTABLE).
When I took the smaller version of each track, the total was still too big for a CDR without overburning -- by apparently less than 10 KB, but still too big.
Miroslav concluded,
and if it is not enough, increase -r up to 16.
... so I tried -r 16 on the eight tracks that had benefited before. All of the first four came out larger at -r 16 than at -r 10, and the detailed help display from flac --explain says that setting -r "above 4 usually doesn't help much," so I stopped the process there.
In the end, I tried zipping the original .flac files done at -8, and although about sixteen (or fourteen?) of them came out larger, the total decreased enough to fit the music and .jpegs onto one CDR. I tried removing the ones that had increased from the .zip archive, but neither Explorer nor WinZip could manage that without hanging. Then I was going to write down which ones got larger from zipping and re-zip the others without them, but in the end I figured it wasn't worth the trouble to keep track of which ones belonged in the .zip archive and which didn't. As long as the data fit onto one disc, that was good enough.
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