Quote Originally Posted by TheHills44060
In that case I would just continue to use my cd player. There would be no reason to transfer cd's to a music server if the server was simply acting as a player.

In the late 90's I used to download trance and techno tunes from Mp3.com only because they weren't available on cd. That was fine because it was new at the time but I have probably downloaded a total of 10 songs from the internet in the last 10 years.
The major benefit of using a Music Server is actually not to download music from the internet.. It is to play music... 95% of the music in my server is from my original CDs (only 5% is downloaded music)...

I have playlists for just about every genre of music or mood that I feel like... So if I feel for early 90's reggae, I just press play and listen while the server goes through 40 songs... Now imagine if I had to be actively changing CDs instead to hear those 40 songs (from various albums)...