Hi, I'm new to MD (loving it by the way) and I would like to know for those of you who have been doing the atrac thing for a while, how true is the 48kbps? Which do YOU recommend? I would love to find out for myself, however, my sonicstage 3.0 rips are distorted. I'm stuck on mp3 until I figure out what's wrong. Oh, I'm selling all my iPod crap as well... I believe that I'M the one who is actually thinking different. Thanks a bunch for any help.