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Hm, did you try to reduce the MP3 bitrate?

I regularly use AG for Audio books using Lame codec and an 8 CD book will be about 250 mb or 8 books to your player. Dont worry about the quaity compared to a music file, it is not the same! The mp3 Settings I use are 1/. Lame as Internal Encoder with a 2/. Contant Bitrate of 32 with 3/. the Quality set to Joint Stereo and Voice. These settings are perfectly OK for the usual single narrator Audio Book.

I have a new dell laptop, and am having issues with ripping cds. the first track of a ripping session always ends up with a skip in it (about a minute in) (ie, if I do track 2 first, that ends up with the skip in). I am using the lame 64 bit converter, but the problem seems to occur before that - the generation of the wav file part of the process seems to create a wav file with a skip in it, meaning, of course, that the generated mp3 has a skip in it too. The rest of the cd rips fine, just the first track of that ripping session. Has anyone ever come across anything like this before?

I recently started using the Squeezebox and found that some albums ripped using Audiograbber v1.83 wont play, although they play fine with Windows Media Player. I took this up with Logitech, sent them some files, and they reorted that "Some of the data thats needed at the beginning of the track (indicating length, etc) seems to be at the end of the track. Because the Squeezebox needs these when streaming via the network, the file cant play." Has anyone else experienced this? Would a later version of Audiograbber cure the problem?

Try to install our mp3 plugin for AG. This should automatically configure LAME as an internal encoder, so no DOS window pops up! http://www.audiograbber.org/download.html

When running the Lame installer, make sure you modify the install path to the same folder as Audiograbber. By default it goes to c:\program files\audiograbber. In my case it was c:\audiograbber. Lame was first on the list after doing so. Enjoy! WB2GLP