I should have asked this Q. yonks ago bit never got around to it. What simple soloution is there to converting a stereo wave file, made within PT12, to an mp3 at a better rate than the 56 kbs currently offered by the little dialog that pops up?

Ideally I would prefer to do the conversion outside PT12 as my copy, without fail, burns to CD-R with a brief burn of about 5 seconds of program material, aborts and then redoes the whole song properly. Nuisance. I solved that by burning with Nero but find that 56 kbs mp3's definitely sound a bit grainy. I sought out the Fraunhofer codec but am not sure if it is actually being used by the system.

Can WMP be trained or tricked into encoding a wave file from a source other than a CD? I have checked and it encodes CD's at 192 kbs- excellent quality. If only you could convince it to "rip" your own wave files.

Specs : AMD 3500, running XP Pro, 2 by 250 gig HDD's, 1.5 gig RAM, WMP version 10. I have PT12 as stated, and BIAB 2007.

Thx. John