I was just perusing through the technical documentation for the Personal Jukebox (you know, that PJB-100, hard-drive based portable MP3 player); Compaq released all sorts of info about the USB and hard drive interface. It's available for download here if you're interested.

Anyway, I point this out to quote the following from the documentation: "One feature of the Personal Jukebox is its ability to store an entire CD as a single MP3 bitstream, while still allowing individual access to each track. The way this is accomplished is to store the CD as a continuous chain of blocks, but create Track entries for each track pointing into the allocated chain of blocks."

Hey, that sounds familiar! Very, very similar to what we were talking about in this thread. Of course I don't believe the windows jukebox management software can handle this feature at the moment, but the API can...

Michael