No no no!!! Janina I don't mean to publicly chastise you but freesoftware! lame is the way to be which isn't quite as good as it could be because it is partially under the lgpl. It does sound better then most of the other encoders also. But oggenc from vorbis tools is the real way to go. http://www.mp3dev.org FC On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > Hi, Charlie: > > I used bladeenc back when I was still creating mp3 files: