This is definitely a concern - am looking at an Olympus DS-2 which should give me ten hours of HQ recording and don't want to degrade it too much. Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kitty Litter" <n8kl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 9:22 AM Subject: [bookport] Re: Audio Question I have one of those, mine only records for an hour at high quality but they have better ones out now. Mine produces compressed .wav files. I would use goldwaves batch converter to convert to mp3 however this means the files get encoded yet again which retuces quality.