The first real-time podcast from a couple of days ago was awful as far as sound quality, but I thought last nights was much better. I'm going to try again over the weekend though, so I'll try your suggestion. I agree that quality is the goal. I want to offer better sound quality than FM or streaming media. *That's* the value proposition for podcasting. For the user, bandwidth shouldn't be as big a deal since podcasting downloads can be set to occur during the wee hours of the night. If I err, I'm going to err on the side of high quality sound. I'll try 44/8 next. Thanks for the suggestion.