Sandy, If you are fortunate enough to have a cassette player in your car, you're in luck insofar as MP3. There are cheap small MP3 players that hold hours and hours of audio. You can buy a small but frustrating FM transmitter that picks up static and transmit through your car radio, or if you have that cassette player in your car you can plug a cassette adapter into your MP3 player and be static free. What a cassette adapter looks like: http://www.buy.com/retail/usersearchresults.asp?querytype=home&qu=cassette+a dapter&qxt=home&display=col Some recent cars have a little plug on the radio so that MP3 players can be connected directly. If you have one of those, you're really in luck. Better yet, a few cars' CD players will play MP3s, and one can bypass the little external MP3 players entirely. A few Mercury cars have that feature. My Merc doesn't. If you go the FM transmitter route, place the FM transmitter in the back window of your car, because that's where most car radio antennas are nowadays, and you pick up less static with the transmitter so close to the antenna. The way you load MP3 lectures, music, and other audio onto your MP3 player is through the USB connection. Your computer recognizes the MP3 player as sort of an external drive, or thumb drive. Make sure the player is of the type that appears to a computer to be an external drive. There are some MP3 players that don't appear that way, and have some weird music software to run it. I've never figured them out, and had to find a method to convert the player to appear as a "normal" MP3 player. Here's an example of the one I use -- (refurbished for lower price): http://www.buy.com/prod/sandisk-sansa-e250-2gb-mp3-player-fm-tuner-fm-on-the -fly-recording/q/loc/111/205562657.html and some spare recharging connectors that use house plugs or car receptacles are nice to go with it. Otherwise the player recharges through the computer's USB connection. http://www.buy.com/prod/belkin-charging-kit-for-sansa-digital-player-data-ca ble-with-car-ac/q/loc/111/204413115.html Woody ========================== BKWORM26@aol.com writes: I would like to listen to some lectures I have on dvd to a cd so I can listen to them in my car. Most of the sites I've looked at, including two cows and some others mention burning from dvd to mp3 and other equally bewildering formats. I really don't know how to do that or how that would help me convert to a plain old recordable cd. Is there some freeware or shareware or directions that might help me without totally demoralizing me and leaving me with the feeling of being a total dope. I have windows xp with a cd drive and a dvd drive. Thanks for any information/guidance you can provide. Sandy Holmes bkworm26@aol.com Marion MA ************** **************Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlcntustrav00000002)