Originally Posted by Usildor

Yah...so anyway, back to the point. To the OP, just use a CDRW and burn, rip, burn rip, burn rip. It'll probably take you a while to catch up but it doesnt require a difficult program that may spit out corrupt files. Once you have it all ripped to your hard drive then you just automatically do this anytime you buy music. Then it only takes a few seconds and isn't a big deal at all.

I don't really like Itunes/Ipod (wife has one). I like my MP3 player (samsung video) much better, I also prefer Win Media Player. BUT (big but) Itunes music store has a great library of music. There's no monthly fee. With yahoo and others you pay a fee AND have to buy the music if you want to keep it after you quit your membership. So I just use Itunes without an Ipod and burn/rip. Works for me.

Note: If you use Media player, I havent found a way to allow the latest media player to let you assign different albums/artists to songs from the same burned CD. So if you're anal like me about having your music collection correctly labled with artists/album info and the album jacket and whatnot, you'll want to burn different artists or albums seperately to rip.