I am planning to get a Creative Zen Stone to give it a try. I wanted to use WMA because I read somewhere it is slightly better than mp3 sound quality wise.

I learned how to use WMP and was wanting to get a start on building my library, then a thought struck me, the Stone says it will play WMA but does that mean all WMA such as Lossy. I acted on something Bubba said and ripped a bunch of files in WMA Lossy. So now I'm on hold until I find out the answer and also if the Stone will load from WMP or will I be forced to use their MediaLite program. I suspect even if the Stone works with WMP I still will have to load the MediaLite to get firmware updates and such.

I didn't have anyone point out the way in iTunes but I couldn't figure out where to start ripping. With the clues gathered here I was able to use WMP. I did have to access their help file a couple times but I'm a ripper now.