I have a few discs of light jazz that I've downloaded from MP3.COM. All of the material on MP3.COM seems to be recorded at 128Kbps. Some of the files are encoded better than others, but even the best seem to have a slightly edgy quality to the treble. I find the worst encoded files hard to listen to, so I've not bothered to dub them to MD if the original encoding is bad. I decode the MP3 with the Fraunhofer decoder in CoolEdit2000, and use CoolEdit2000 to play the file via a 44.1K digital output on my computer. This is connected to an MDS-PC2 recorder (ATRAC 4.5). I have not been able to hear any additional degradation caused by the ATRAC in the MD recorder. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
