I heard XP won't "allow" you to rip from cd as MP3. It will rip as WMA. I also heard that someone found a way to do it and extract an MP3 with a higher quality than WMA. Is there any way to rip via MP3 or no? Will AudioCatalys or AudioGrabber work on XP??? Or should I just stick to Win2k Pro???

Doing it with the Microsoft Media Player you can't convert to MP3 anymore. That's because they are trying to promote their WMA above the commonly used MP3 format. Any third party tools like AudioCatalyst or AudioGrabber will still work. Mik

Hope this helps Getting MP3 ripping to work in Windows Media Player 8 in XP Enter the following in the registry : [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftMediaPlayerSet tingsMP3Encoding] "LowRate"=dword:0000dac0 "MediumRate"=dword:0000fa00 "MediumHighRate"=dword:0001f400 "HighRate"=dword:0002ee00 This corresponds to 56, 64, 128 and 192 Kbps. You can change this to your liking using the following dword hex values : 320 Kbps = dword:0004e200 256 Kbps = dword:0003e800 224 Kbps = dword:00036b00 192 Kbps = dword:0002ee00 160 Kbps = dword:00027100 128 Kbps = dword:0001f400 112 Kbps = dword:0001b580 64 Kbps = dword:0000fa00 56 Kbps = dword:0000dac0 Mustard

you can get a mp3 plugin for media player from windowsxp.nu

But if you want to rip mp3:s from a cd you have to install the aspi drivers... And use a program like audiograbber...