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Hi Zeke,Greg is right it is pretty well automated for you. Have been using Nero for a long while.What you want is "Make Audio CD" the wizard makes it very simplified or you can use the the "Burning Rom interface" either way, you will be able to note the difference in the file conversion by the length of time available.For instance: 'The Revival Hymn' clocks in @ 35:35.26 which will take up just short of half of a 80 minute CD. If you were in the MP3 mode it would barely register a blip (You can get hours of messages onto one CD in MP3, but they will not play in a 'regular' CD player)Something that may be worth checking out is using the upgraded free trial version http://www.nero.com/us/nero6-ultraedition.phpIt will run for 30 days. There are usually 3 to 4 'packages' that you can download that have the whole 'suite' with all the bells and whistles.I had been using these in consecutive 30 day 'trials' for many months, though I would often have to wait for an updated version in between, primarily because I was having some problems with my particular CD burner (it would stall during the burn process) and was reluctant to purchase it until I was able to determine if it was the software or a hardware problem.Definitely use the 'Simulation' which will do a test run without physically burning to the CD, it will save you from making worthless little Frisbee's or 'coasters' from bad or failed burns.Another note is to use lower Write Speeds: 24x or 16x for burning these messages, it might take a little longer but in my experience they seem to work better, might have something to do with the Data...Greg might know more about this...Depending on your Nero 5 version, if it was purchased alone or if it was an OEM ver. that came with your burner/computer you can get discounts, which I finally did in my case. Let me know if you need any help navigating through the confusion (Upgrades vs Updates) or anything else related, would be glad to help.On a side note, the irony of using this particular named software to 'burn' CD's primarily from sources here has not been lost on me;A couple of excerpts:Nero was fair-haired, with weak blue eyes, a fat neck, a pot belly and a body which smelt and was covered with spots. He usually appeared in public in a sort of dressing gown without a belt, a scarf around his neck and no shoes.In character he was a strange mix of paradoxes; artistic, sporting, brutal, weak, sensual, erratic, extravagant, sadistic, bisexual - and later in life almost certainly deranged.... in July AD 64, the Great Fire ravaged Rome for six days. The historian Tacitus, who was about 9 years old at the time, reports that of the fourteen districts of the city, 'four were undamaged, three were utterly destroyed and in the other seven there remained only a few mangled and half-burnt traces of houses.'Nero, always a man desparate to be popular, therefore looked for scapegoats on whom the fire could be blamed. He found it in an obscure new religious sect, the Christians.And so many Christians were arrested and thrown to the wild beasts in the circus, or they were crucified . Many of them were also burned to death at night, serving as 'lighting' in Nero's gardens, while Nero mingled among the watching crowds.It is this brutal persecution which immortalized Nero as the first Antichrist in the eyes of the Christian church. (The second Antichrist being the reformist Luther by edict of the Catholic Church.)http://www.roman-empire.net/emperors/nero.htmlHis last words were, "Qualis artifex pereo." ("What an artist the world loses in me.")