I took the plunge and prepaid for 1500 Mb of files from ALLOFMP3.COM,cost me $15.00 via Paypal. You can have your tracks cutom encoded using LAME and the -alt presets up to insane, MPEG-1 Layer 3 - MP3, Windows Media Audio - WMA, Ogg Vorbis - OGG, MusePack - MPC, MPEG-4 AAC. So far I can't complain. For $.01/1Mb it is the best deal considering a majority of the tracks can be custom encoded....but not all. It takes them a little long to get some of the newest music though. I ripped a couple of tracks from the original CD and then had the same tracks encoded from -ALT PRESET EXTREME and downloaded them from ALLOFMP3.COM and could not tell a difference in sound quality. To me it is a helluva lot better alternative to I-Tunes or BuyMusic or Napster.