The distortion is coming from your record level not your sample rate. Men are like a fine wine. They start out as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the crap out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with. but then again women are always putting their foot into it! robert Doc Wright http://www.wrightplaceinc.net msn godfearer15@xxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew J. LaPointe To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 8:50 AM Subject: [bookport] recording to mp3? Hi, I have a question about recording a sound clip with total recorder taking the wav file and converting it to mp3. Now after doing so, I noticed that the recording was a bit distorted. The transfer rate was 128 by 44. My question is, what bit rate should I be using for a better recording for the bookport. Andy.