Hopefully, Eamonj25, you'll discover that the empeg has really good sound quality, and that the stuff you download off the internet doesn't sound very good because it's ripped poorly. Maybe that might get you interested in actually ripping your own CD collection so you can control the quality. A significant number of empeg owners have even ripped their entire collections a second time at a higher bit rate because the empeg's sound quality was so good that they wanted to get the best possible results.