Petra on ZJAM this Sat., Oct. 18

[Petrapraise]

There's no need to convert the file to MP3 or anything else. Nero or any other burning software will take a WAV and convert it to audio for any standard CD player. Converting it to MP3 would just be an extra step. You may only want to do that if you plan on keeping these files on your computer.

[Michael]

Not only would converting it to MP3 before burning be an extra step, it would actually degrade the quality of the recording further. I don't know if it would be that noticeable considering the original source (RealAudio which is already compressed), but it's true... convert it to a WAV and then burn it from there. If you want to keep it on your computer, though, you'd probably want to either convert that WAV file directly MP3 or Ogg Vorbis, or actually rip MP3's directly from the CD you burned.

One problem with burning it to CD would be the length of the show; you obviously can't burn a 3-hour show complete to CDs which only hold like 50 minutes max each. We have a stereo that can play MP3 CDs, and if you have that (many DVD players can do it, too) you actually might want to convert it to a high-quality MP3 to play it on that stereo and you could have the whole thing on one CD.