So now that I have my Rio Reciever, I have been pondering some deep thoughts about digital music:

Basically, we all take our CD and rip them to some kind of digital format. That digital format, the quality, and the file size depend on a bunch of factors. For example, if you are intending to put the music on a portable mp3 player with limited flash space you might want to use a lower encoding bit rate to conserve space; if you have a specific HD enabled player you might need to encode into a specific format to make the music playable on the player; if you just want to build up a digital PC library, you might simply encode into a lossless format instead of the oh-so-familiar mp3.

Here's the bottom line:
Wouldn't be cool if there was a tool that let you create a 'master' library on disk of your music, and then encoded and downloaded on the fly to all of your portable devices?

Is there any tool out there that does this?

--Yonah