The CDs I've made have all been good. I have a Lite-On 16x IDE burner at home and 12x at work. Both have made good CDs.

Some MP3s have been joint stereo and some mono. For my personal use, I could care less about a 96kbps vs 16kbps. The only problem is when I have to send an MP3 to someone living in the dark ages with Winamp 1 and 56k.

PS- 16kbps files definitely do not work.
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-Rob Riccardelli
80GB 16MB MK2 090000736