something i've been wanting to get started on for a while, and hoping for some advice. i'd like to start the process of ripping all my music CDs without yet knowing how i'm going to treat them down the road. all i want to do is pop out, buy a honking big external hard drive and start transferring, but i want to do it in such a way that i don't regret how i did it in a few months and realize i should have done it differently. given lots of disk space, my initial idea is to rip everything to FLAC format, which is of course the least efficient but is lossless. for now, i won't care about space efficiency, i can always convert to a different format later once i decide how to set up my in-house media centre. thoughts? all i want is the recipe for how i can start loading up that new hard drive with my tunes, and not have to facepalm myself a few months from now, muttering, "crap, i forget to do X so i have to start all over." rday