I don't have the _original_ file, only this copy that was sent to me as an MP3. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Kaufman" <wa9top@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 11:31 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: MP3 that won't play You won't lose anything, you won't gain quality. Their is no need to do a double conversion in goldwave. Just open the file, and go to save as, then pick the higher bit rate in the save as dialog.