Hey thelizman do you know how quality of a codec Napster or Itunes uses
when
you pay the buck for a song from them? It definitely sounds better than
FM
to me.

He was referring to the encoding algorithm. That is, the compression
algorithm used to MAKE mp3s from cds. What you're referring to is DEcoding
the "universal" mp3 code, which should (theoretically) be the same across
players.