Hi, I own a Sony minidisc player and Really don't enjoy Lawsuits. The good part about a sony minidisc player is that you can record in LP4 format this gives you some were between 4hours of music on one disc. I also Have a Abit max3 motherboard with optical out and the minidisc also has optical in-put recording. So before I go to bed at night I just turn on a Internet Radio satation and record fourhours of it. I then review the music the next Day and if I like a song all I have to do is hook up my double male end Head phone Jack, then hook that to my computers line-in turn on Roxio Audio Central select record from an analog device and I get a really good sounding MP3. The audio is good if you choose a Radio Station that is 300bit-100bit a sec and porting it through your line-in there is no signal loss that I can tell it all sounds digital to me. It works Great and the Best Part is The RIAA Has No way to monitor or stop me from sampling in this way. I also like it because Bands like L.O.C that are European and its impossible to ever buy or listen to here in the States and belive me I've tried to download them on Kazaa and Napster or any Peer to peer Network believe me you get 00.01 Kps and then it will eventually start over. L.O.C is a German Rap group just incase your wondering. Windows Media Player Has all the internet Radio stations you'll ever need and if you want more just get itunes. Shout Out to Copenhagen Denmark, BoogieSKum is the pimp of online Radiostations