can't believe i'm gonna make my first post here about a format fight, but give the people what they want for crying out loud. if someone wants to convert your recording from flac to mp3, big deal. you put it on the internet, you don't have control over it anymore (in many cases the tapings weren't even legal to begin with...). get over it. that said, myself and many others i'm sure could easily tell the difference between 192 VBR MP3 and some lossless compression given the right reference system. i'm willing to take the quality loss, to save disk space / download times. to each their