Goughchr: I agree broadly with your view of "who wants CD anyhow?", but there are a lot of times when you just want to be able to throw a CD in.

WFaulk: I hate going to the store and buying a new CD only to have to wait to get back home to rip it and transfer it before I can listen to it.

Right. Which is why I said that you should just get a cheap portable CD player and connect it to the empeg's Aux-In connector. That is the perfect solution to these situations, and the empeg was designed for this very thing to work.