Quote Originally Posted by Troy
iTunes. It's free and super sophisticated, yet, like all Apple stuff, highly intuitive and easy to use. It allows for ripping in all formats and bitrates and will rip songs as a group so you can hear intros if they are separate tracks when in shuffle mode.

Jason, as I rip music to the HD for the iPod I burn them off to DVDs in 5gig clumps for storage. Much cheaper than buying yet another outboard storage device.
I guess it will depend on whether the MP3 player I bought my wife will be supported by iTunes or not. I think its a free download isn't it?