iPods are part of our digital lifestyles and I have owned one ever since they first came out! Actually, I had mine one day before they came out since I was able to convince my local Apple store to release my prepaid item before the market date. Since then, I never looked back to the CD as a precious piece of material associated with music. Right after getting home with my new iPod, I promptly encoded all 300+ of my CDs onto my Quicksilver G4, looted Amazon for images, and tagged every album with image art. After that, all my CDs turned into gifts for my friends and as I have upgraded from computer to computer, that 20 gigabytes of music just follows me around every where I go.