Adam,

You could rip the CD's onto your hard disk into wav format. This is
lossless. You can then run a conversion program (there are literally dozens
available, just do a google search for "mp3 converter") to make mp3
versions of them for your FLASH player. I think most of the converters will
allow you to specify the frequency rate of the resultant mp3 file.

The only issue is how much disk space you have.

At 10:23 AM 8/16/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> > Are there any utilities or ways in which I can burn my CD library to my
> > hard drive in a "lossless" audio format, but then convert them to a
> > smaller
> > size as I export them to my Rio audio player.  The "lossless" format
> > creates files much to large for my MP3 player to handle (it is a
> > flashmemory RIO player, not a hard drive IPOD).  The idea is that I
> > would
> > have a full backup of my audio library that I could then put on CD's if
> > I
> > want them for my car, but not burn them to CD in a manner that sounds
> > crappy.  For my flash player, the company recommmended selecting the
> > 64kb/s
> > format.  This produces average mp3 file sizes of around 3,000k.   Any
> > direction to forums that discuss this or direct feedback would be
> > greatly
> > appreciated.  Thank you in advance.

Russ Poffenberger
Credence Systems Corp.
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