thx for answering, my cpu is a athlon fx57 with asus sli premium as mobo. it is running windows xp sp1 and i won't buy an ipod I've already tried sonicstage, it works fine except that the database construction always fails when i disconnect the walkman. i've got the latest avalaible version of the software and i had this issue with all versions i tested (from v1.0 on the cd-rom u get when u buy the walkman to the actual version) thx