Oh, and by the way, this is what I mean by cross-platform, free as in beer and speech, mighty useful, very pimpadelic codec: http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html Linux FLAC 1.1.2 for RedHat 7.x FLAC 1.x Debian packages RPMs can be found on Planet CCRMA and rpmfind.net Mac OS X MacFLAC with installer and GUI front-end (source code not available) FLACer (source code not available) xACT with installer and GUI front-end (source code included) FLAC Fink package for use with Fink FLAC 1.1.2 for OS X (no installer) Windows FLAC 1.1.2 for Windows with installer. NOTE: Several virus scanners are reporting that FLAC contains a trojan; this is a FALSE POSITIVE. For more info see here, here, here. FLAC 1.1.2 for Windows (tools only) Other FLAC package for Amiga FLAC packages for IRIX. FLAC 1.1.0 for Solaris 2.7 Unofficial port of the FLAC libraries to Windows CE (WinCE) Source code FLAC 1.1.2 full source code; also includes documentation and build systems for Windows (MSVC++) and *nix,*BSD,OS/2,OS X (autotools) Nightly CVS tarball; this is the actual CVS repository used for development Older versions Older versions of FLAC available from SourceForge --gcr