----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael vg" <govango@yahoo.com>
> No it is not true. I have mp3s on my iPOD that I have bought from
> iTUNES, eMUSIC, downloaded from websites, newsgroups. I also have
> mp3s from CDs I own and ripped to myu PC for my iPOD. I also have
> mp3s that I have ripped from friends CDs.
> And the iTUNES files I bought, can easily be burned to a CDR
> and ripped back to your machine in MP3 format and the DMR problem
> is gone.

You can do this, but you pay a quality price.  MP3s at 128k have about 10% 
of the data of a CD quality .wav file.  MP3 compression is a "lossy" format; 
you lose data and fidelity.  Burning an MP3 to disc and extracting it as an 
MP3 adds another quality loss; an MP3 of an MP3 is like a tape of a tape; 
each generation sounds worse than the one before.