Don't waste my time? Have you ever heard of gapless encoding? Better than 50% of my CD collection has tracks that blend together. Ogg Vorbis is naturally gapless, whereas with LAME, although it's possible, it requires more work and isn't perfect. Also, if you had been reading carefully, you would have noticed that ltd, the person whom I responded to, claims to have been running an Ogg decoder on his empeg for a while now. So if he can give me instructions that aren't too difficult to follow, I'm all over it. I have already begun re-encoding my collection.