Formatting for On-Line Musicking
This post is not of general interest, but that's all right since we don't yet have a general audience. For those who are interested in sending me songs or any audio, here's one way to get me the format I want (128kbps mp3):

If you have iTunes -- and even PCs get iTunes -- it's a four step process.

1. In iTunes, select the song you want to convert.
2. At the menu bar select iTunes|Preferences.
3. In the dialog box select importing. You'll see two draw down menus:
"Import using:" Set this to MP3 encoder; and
"Setting:" Set this to Good Quality (128 kbps)
Click the OK button
4. At the menu bar select Advanced|Convert Selection to MP3

If this is still confusing, I can put up some screenshots.