[not a newbie, just a sucker] Man, I'm kicking myself for taking three weeks a few summers ago to "rip my cd collection just for fun using Audio Catalyst; caring about quantity rather than quality of the rips." I was just too daunted by ripping my entire CD collection to care about the quality of EVERY CD. "Ah, I won't care that the drums sound terrible in all my jazz CDs. Ah, I won't care that the violin sections sound like they are underwater on all my classical CDs." What was I THINKING! [/not a newbie, just a sucker]