In fact, pre-empeg, I always kept CD's in a CD changer. I had a Sony 200 disc changer

Pre Empeg, I had already invested in 4 of those things, 3, 200's and a 300. I've never got round to ripping the whole lot - the Empeg contains a very large "best of".
The chief feature, however is the slink-e, which controls and catalogues the whole lot, plus all the MP3's on my network, with the facility for attaching notes and cover pivtures, it works fantastically well, but the software could do with all sorts of improvements, development seems to have stopped.