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I use Napster to find songs I have albums (many)for but don't want or have the right equipment for making them mp3's, it would be somewhat difficult to do in my situation. There are too many to do, nevermind the wear on them that would occur, I know the mp3's I get aren't the same sonically as the album but I'm listening to a compressed format as it is.

I would much rather rip and encode an MP3 file myself. I know I can get a good clean rip from my CD drive then use my favorite encoder (LAME) with the settings that will give me the results I'm after.

Much more controlled than downloading a file from Napster.

Rod.