[QUOTE="Pip"] I'd rip my stuff to MP3, burn it to a CD-R and stick said CD-R into my CD player, for preference.[/QUOTE] Which means you've got to have the right CD-R in the player, or at least in arm's reach, whenever you fancy listening to a particular something. I've got 30GB of music, comedy, radio shows, Reith Lectures, on my iPod. Whenever I fancy something, it takes seconds to start it playing.