Thanks shark . . my whine is I  just don't like the bother.  Don't find a significant difference with the VBR mp3 sound and it's simple . .  can download and play or burn with your regular media program. 

Karen . . there is a lot of info here 
http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation_tasks.html 
I haven't tried it myself  but was told a program named Roxio can burn a CD directly from the flac file.  

Sorry for all the off-topic K.C. . . . returning your thread to it's regularly scheduled programing now.