Many thanks all, for the warm welcome and replies. :) I played around a bit, it seems like Sonic Stage 4.3 has an area/option where you can load a CD in, without having to copy to the hard drive, and load to the minidisc (at the bit rate one chooses). It's almost like MD Simple Burner was 'incorporated' into the Sonic Stage this way, and thus the non-support for a stand-alone MD Simple Burner by itself. I'll go ahead and try this later, and let you know. Really dug having simple burner, as I don't want to clog my hard drive up with music files, but rather, just load to the minidisc directly.......I know I know I'm an anomaly in this mp3 world, lol:) but oh well, it works for me..... Thanks again, Brian oh, just as a follow-up, perhaps the 'import cd' option was in previous Sonic Stages (ie. before 4.3.....like I said I was using 3.4), I'm not sure, I never tried it, as I just went straight to MD Simple Burner..... If the Import CD option in Sonic Stage 4.3 works the same way (or nearly does), that would be great, and I'd be a happy camper....