Scott: I find it surprising that a file at 3X would sound that much better on the = PC then on the Book Port. I can only suspect that re-encoding the file = made the difference in this case. Low bit rate files would have this = problem more than others. Rob Meredith >>> n3byy@xxxxxxxxxxxx 08/28/04 04:35PM >>> Folks, Got a question. I used compression and also the option to remove pauses=20 in an mp3 file. I tried speeding it up at 1.5 and that didn't seem to=20 much faster so then I tried 2.0 and then 3.0. I liked 3.0, but this may=20 be normal, but it sounded okay on the machine, but when it was=20 transferred to the BP it sounded pretty distorted. Is this normal or=20 does this affect some mp3 files more than others? It wasn't so bad I couldn't understand it, but it was not what I had=20 expected. thanks, Scott