On Mon, 21 May 2001, Austad, Jay wrote: > Keep in mind that converting from MP3 -> WAV -> MP3 is going to dramatically > reduce the quality of the resulting MP3. Essentially, you're encoding the > audio file with lossy compression, and then compressing it again with lossy > compression. You're probably going to hear some static or popping sounds in > your resulting file. I figured as much. Basically what everyone's been telling me is kinda what I thought. Looks like my best option would be to take all my MP3s, play them through a nice dbx compressor to WAV files, and then burn them. What I've discovered is that for the most part, albums are all normalized across the tracks (as they should be). Last night I burned a CD with several cuts by multiple artists, and I noticed that on the first track I set the volume, it's good through the rest of that artists's tracks until the next artist, then I adjust, and all of their songs are good. So much for making it as painless as possible :-)