Yeah.... I recently re-encoded all my music... I was using a dual Athlon XP 1600 with a gig of ram... 2 40x CD Roms... and around 1000 CD's... it took me close to a month (would have been quicker but after the first 200 CD's I slacked off and slowed down on swapping CD's out). It's definately a pain but worth the hassle, now all my ID3 tags are correct, higher bitrates make me happy and everything is in order. But I definately don't blame you for not wanting to go through that again.