Indeed this is the way to go! I have 1300 songs (~130CDs) taking up 35gig, ~26 meg/song.

The advantage is if you have a sports MP3 player, you can go FLAC -> Low qual MP3 (flash devices) or to HQ MP3 for things like ipod and empeg without having to keep pullling the CD out. 200G PC drives can be had for $150 now...

But I'd love to keep it in FLAC, if possible. It'd make it worth my while to get a 40G laptop drive. I spent so much on my car audio system that using lossy compression is almost a sin.

Is there an ETA on 3.0 betas yet?