Bullseye! Despite common practice, there is no good reason to introduce an MP3 generation when burning CD to CD. And your point about making an MP3 from the ripped wav file-- sheer simple genius! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stewart Mason" To: ; Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 5:51 PM Subject: Re: New Matthew Sweet Stuff > At 05:45 PM 5/28/2003 -0400, josh chasin wrote: > >Billy-- do you think that is the answer-- ripping to wav, not MP3? > > Yep. It's what I do with all of my supposedly "copy-protected" CDs, and I > never hear a peep. Actually, it's what I do with all my CDs period -- I > almost never need MP3s of anything, because I make mix CDs, and (at least > on my burning software) that requires WAV files, not MP3s. > > And should I need an MP3, I make it from the WAV file, since I've already > tweaked it in Cool Edit until it (quite often) sounds better than the > original CD did. No problem. > > S > > > >