Well, we all know compressed music sounds bad. Myself, I have about 500 songs so far downloaded into itunes. Being a newbie at iTunes too, went and downloaded a bunch of my favorite songs from my CD's to mp3. It took many hours, and then after listening to some songs, I realized how crappy the sound really is. So now, I found the way to upload to iTunes with the wave format. Great. But now i'm going to spend many more hours deleting songs from mp3 format to wave. Or, I might just buy a DVD recorder and put my favorite songs from the discs onto blanks. Considering I usually only like 3 to 5 songs per disc, on the rare one all of the songs. So, if I can take songs from 200 CD's or so and make 50 good mixed discs, put them in a CD stacker, I should be good. Can you tell I really hate changing CD's and skipping songs or what? Does anybody have any other suggestions for me to work around this?