I use Winamp 5.05 Pro, Win XP home edition and JFW 5.10. You can set the encoding within Winamp to tell it to rip in 4 formats. For me anyway and this may vary from pc to pc. So if you have an audio cd in standard audio format you can rip it to your hard drive. I plan to use the mp3 1.2 encoder for now but I need some help with some of the options. Below is the way I do it to get to the encoding settings to tell how Winamp to rip in what audio format to my hard drive. Open your Winamp 5.05 player. Do a ctrl+p keystroke. A tree view appears. Arrow down to General preferences. If it says close then do a right arrow and you will hear it say open. If it says open when you land on General preferences then arrow down to the 8 items. When you arrow down go to the CD ripping item and then do a few tabs. 2 tabs I believe. You are on a diloag box with quite a few tab/page setting controls. The ctrl+tab command does not work for me so I have to use my jaws cursor to find the "encoding page tab" and do a left mouse click using the insert plus another key on the num pad. Now I am in the Winamp Encoding settings. Use your tab key to listen to various settings you can choose in this area. My questions are: 1. What is VBR that I hear. Mine is on VBR New. 2. I hear minimum bit rate is 96. I know the higher the bit rate the better. 3. I hear my maximum bit rate is 224? but I hear 256 is the best. 4. There are some other settings and mine are at normal, and one combox box that JFW doesn't read well. It is the lsast combo box there it says "1" 2 of ten. What is this box setting. Any help is greatly appreciated. Within this same screen you can choose the Ripping tab to tell Winamp where to to rip your audio cds to on your hard drive. That is which folder. Hope this helps somebody. To post a message to the list, send it to winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send a message to: winamp4theblind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/winamp4theblind> If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list directly. Instead, please contact the list owners at winamp4theblind-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx