The music on my player comes from the 500 CDs sitting on my shelves. I assume your comment was directed to someone else specifically?

I will continue to buy music to rip and put on my empeg. I don't have much interest in downloading for anything but preview purposes - and really more to tide me over until I can actually get the album (most of the artists I listen to I can safely buy without having listened to a single track of the new album beforehand).

I do have about 1GB of downloaded music on my empeg right now. Most are probably remixes of tracks I have on bought discs. Stuff that I more than likely would not be able to find in stores. And of course some older tracks that I'll have to research and dig to find sources for - not everything is available on eBay at all times (many things have long-since been deleted from catalogs).

Bruno