Hi > > Generally speaking, your friend will be far better off sonicly, to > re-rip the music from the disks. I don't think he would be at all > impressed with the results of such a 'conversion'. adding to this : if you are going to re encode everything from the original sources then encoding it to flac as a lossless format and then encoding it to ogg vorbis (lossy) can be a good thing to do -- Regards, Rahul Sundaram