jith

Dont know how this question might sound to you guys .....i tried my best on net to find an answer but couldnt i tried transfering lame mp3 files to my nw-hd5 via sonicstage 4.0 and noticed that the bitrate of my files in hd5 are different than that in my pc...for instance a vbr file of 256kbps is shown as 205kbps in hd5. i tried file manager v2 as well. same prob again. any solutions?