On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 11:39 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: > I'm also looking for comments on the relative advantages of ripping to > mp3 versus wav files Depends on what you want to do with them. If you're just going to play the files, exactly as they were ripped, you might as well encode them straight away. If you want to edit them first (e.g. to neaten up the changes between tracks), I'd rip to wave, and edit the data, then make the lossy compression to MP3. If you have ogg capable players, I'd suggest ogg over MP3. It's unencumbered, and it generally sounds better. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.