An Obvious point; but did someone mention that MP3 is a 'lossy' format, whereas Wav is not?
In other words if you burn to MP3 then as part of the algorithm some data is chucked away, whereas with Wav you get it all. Its a compromise for small file size - a good one for some functions, but becoming increasingly less relevent, as hard drives become bigger faster better. I believe you can save an MP3 at different bit rates as mentioned above.

If you try to convert MP3 back to Wav then you can only get back what was crunched down - not the discarded data.

I am sure some people on this thread realise this, but on a speed read I coud not find this point.


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