RE: Ripping audio CD to MP3 - quality ?

["James Hoye" <yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Now ....
> Although the stereo in the car starts to play the disc and it sees
track1
> (there are 4 albums in seperate folders).. I get no sound at all ...
:-(
>
> I then took the CD to work and slapped it in my laptop. Sound quality
was
> pants. It sounds like mid-range distortion. No amount of faffing
> around with
> the sound levels makes it any better.
> I've played normal audio CD in the the lappy before and all was
> well. I took
> same MP3 CD and played it at home on same machine as it was created
> on...again distorts...so common factor seems to be the ripping of the
mp3s
> on the disk.
> I then downloaded an mp3 and even though this was at 192 Kbps it
sounded
> fine.

It's not one of these new copy-protected CDs is it?

James