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Okay so I just d/led this.. no problems at all so far.. I have a sony DVoiceR and am trying to convert the .dvf's from meetings last night to other formats so others can listen to them. I tried converting to .mp3 and it produced a HUGE file. I was using default settings, although I think I added CRC for error control. Then I tried converting to .ogg vorbis.. still it created a file about or over twice the original file size. I so far have recorded my audio on the ICD-P320 at high quality. What are optimum (or at least reasonable) settings and file formats for a conversion ? I don't really want to lose quality as these recordings are going to be kept in perpetuity.. but I also need the files to be playable on all platforms (windows, mac OS X, *nix although *nix is not really important right now as we have no *nix users except myself) and I need the file sizes to be reasonable. It's already bad enough that our longer recordings are already too big to upload to our storage site. thanks