Thanks Mike C.
I was playing around with it and 3 different version of Windows Media Encoder last night (7.1, 8 and 9). I don't know what happened, but I can no longer rip or play Audio CDs from Windows Media Player 9. :( I can pop a CD in and click "Copy Music" (or whatever the button is called) and it goes through them VERY fast. I noticed the WMA files that it is now saving are very tiney and when I play them all I hear are distorted clicks and pops, no music. Also, when I go to play the Audio CD via WMP9 I hear the same thing!! I swear it was just working perfectly yesterday. It's set to record and play "digital", and I'm using Windows 2K. If anyone has had this happen, please tell me how to fix it. I tried the uninstall/reinstall thing over and over last night with all the software I was playing with. I don't know what happened....
Windows Media Encoder - Does anyone use their "file conversion" feature? I tried this on a .wav and it seems to have a major problem on my PC. I clicked browse, found the .wav file and click okay or open. All I got was an hourglass and after a while it appeared the app had stopped responding. And, it does this every time, on all three versions...sigh, I may have to reinstall my OS, again.