Yeah I do rip from CD, but I rip at VBR (Variable Bit Rate) with a range of 160-320. Basically in short VBR only uses the bandwidth when it needs too. There's no sense in using 320 kilobytes for silence now is there? It works qutie nicely!
As I said earlier I've got about 9000 or so songs, sitting at around 45GB of music, compared to my friends, this is an 'average size' collection, I've got friends with two or three times what I have in just music. As for total hard drive space I have 440GB's in his box, and a 60GB mp3 player
- D