I suspect that AARK was hoping to keep the stuff in MD format, as the quality is a bit better, but reading between the lines of Clintons posts tells us that converting from one format to another loses some data. That 'may' not be terribly important to some, but might be to others. I mostly just want to capture stuff to learn and/or enjoy.

Yesterday, there was a local radio program I had forgotten about until it started, so I just set a good mic in front of my radio and caught the last hour of the program on MD. The quality was perfectly acceptable for my purposes.

My son has an MP3 recorder/player, so between us we can capture/play/edit etc. as much as most amateurs need.

A search of the WWW reveals dozens of software ways to record, capture, edit, convert...etc. music...(including streaming audio)...and it is easy to be overwhelmed by it all. ('bootlegged plug-ins' may be a bit deeper than some want to go, Clinton.. *grin*)