flac = good stuff. think of flac as a zip file for a wav file. conversion is painless because there is no actual lossy encoding involved, just compression. Easiest way I know of is to uses the FLAC Frontend, add the flac files to the program, and hit decode. this will give you wav files. from there, use whatever mp3 encoding app you like (i prefer eac with lame 3.96.1.) Use nero to burn (you can use eac to burn also, i think)
http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/inde...rces/download/