u do have some good points there. im not faithful to wav files ...like i sed its just all i can find right now ...im shur il end up getting my lossless library built up with a mix of .wav .aiff .flac and wma lossless and whatever els there is ...i dont reely cair what formatt its in , just as long as it sounds exactley the same as the origanal cd . the main thing i wanted to get out is that dling a song should be fun and ez ...and not like trash picking ...i hate "hunting" for a song that is "true" amung all the crap that was converted from mp3 or taped off the radio. i have been reading on the subject a lot ...thats one of the reasons i decided to go lossless in the first place. i would just buy my music but the pay p2p stuff is a rip off and they dont have any lossless music ,im broke ,and you cant buy just the song you want at the cd store-you have to buy a cd with 1 or 2 songs you like and 18 that suck.