"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I suppose there must be a way to convert it to MP3 format? For me this
is
a non-issue, but I can see why it would be critical from your end...

As Larry said, one easy way is to just burn the music to an audio CD and
then reencode it to whatever new format you want (e.g. MP3 or WMA). Use a
CD-RW to avoid wasting blanks.

Software exists to do similar conversions between various audio formats, but
they will all essentially wind up doing the same thing: decode the one
format into raw audio and reencode into another format. They may do it at a
higher quality than CDDA (16-bit, 44.1Khz) but anyone exposed to airplane
noise on a regular basis would never notice the difference.

Pete