Originally Posted by Lord of the Rings

May I ask 'Why' you are reconverting the files? Doing such whether upping or downing the bitrate will result in loss of quality of the file. mp3 is a Lossy format which means with each conversion audio information is thrown away.

Initially, it was due to lack of hard drive space....

Now, as I download to externals, that's obviously no longer an issue, but tbh I've never found a problem with converted 128 bitrate files.

I appreciate that converting can lose some quality, but apart from the odd occasion, I've never personally had a problem with them; I wouldn't be able to listen to a file if it sounded that terrible....

As for LW reading audio bitrates, it has been known to read them incorrectly. This was also a problem with LW 4 & still exists now. LW 5 has no refresh button as LW 4 had so you will most likely need to restart LW for it to reread the bitrates. Point made to me by a LW dev about this issue was, what LW may incorrectly show you on your LW's shares window will not be what others see.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of this.

Next point:

If I am seeking a song I have wanted to have for years .. I find yours ... why should i only have a reconverted mp3 at 128 kbps when I want the best quality I can obtain because that song was what was played at my mom's funeral ... or at my wedding .. etc.