Great many thanks and a virtual beer to Charles Philip Chan and Mads Martin Joergensen for the excellent advice re: getting lame up and running for converting. Audacity is able to convert now to mp3. However... <grin> I had converted a large 58min .wav to .mp3 and it worked quite well. Then I converted a much smaller .wav to .mp3 but the a lot of weirdness ensued. The original .wav I recorded using defaults in Audacity which were Sample Format 32bit Float, 44100Mhz, and stereo. Now I don't need this much resolution. These are just voice recordings off a phone machine, so I set the Audacity settings to 1/2 the originals. 16 bit, 22050mhz and Mono and recorded it as a .wav file. Now when I converted that file to mp3 and play it back it does weird things. The conversation starts very high speed. Then the conversation starts again at the beginning at a normal speed, then the conversation picks up where it originally left off in the original high speed, then it drops back to the slow speed, same section of conversation all over again. This cycle continues to repeat throughout the .mp3 file. The .wav file doesn't sound like that at all. It's just a straight through conversation, all at one speed. Anyone have a clue what is going on? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus