You didn't buy Audiograbber. Either that, or you've made a mistake in the second portion of your post. "They" were not bought by Real.

Audiograbber is a one-man deal. There's no "they." It's made and sold by Jackie Franck. Who also happens to be the author of the program you are probably thinking of, AudioCatalyst. He made that based on Audiograbber, for XING. XING was bought by Real. XING took over development of AudioCatalyst from Jackie a while back. AudioCatalyst works ONLY with XING's encoder. Jackie's Audiograbber works with any encoder.

Does Windows Media Player support MP3 in Win2K? Making WMA files is a complete waste of time. Does it support FreeDB? Does it archive a copy of your album info, for all albums you read? Does it support custom-length tracks by repositioning the start and end markers? Does it handle digitizing of external analogue sources from the same interface?

Sorry, just didn't want Brad's message to go off-track onto the irrelevance of WMA and Windows Media Player. They're the BETAMAX of lossy music compression, without the edge in quality.

Bruno