Thanks Ivan:

I have burned a lot of Audio CDs. When I use MusicMatch to convert to wav or to 128kbit MP3 the files still fail. They remain in mono and at a lower XX khz level.

I will try Total Recorder. I want to get it anyway for transfering some of my old records to MP3's. Still, I would prefer some other software that doesn't have to do it in real time.

JAB