Streaming Music. Which programs for BEST quality?

[taltos1]

Hello,
I have a client to wants to have streaming media of him (he is an opera singer) on his website. I know how to stream it but I am not sure how to get the BEST possible quality from the original source which is a CD. I tried ripping them to MP3, then using helix and windows media encoder to create real and windows media streaming audio files. He listened and said he wants even better.. What software is the best to use to..

Thanks a lot

 

[notfred]

USe a higher bitrate. don't cross-encode form MP3 to WMA. Pick one or the other and encode directly from the CD to that format.