Thanks for the pointers ... I'll probably give this a go (also answers another question on how to share SS between more than one PC) The main problem I can see though is that I converted the bulk of my CDs before SS had the "don't add any DRM as I promise not to copy things I'm not meant to" option ... so most of my library has DRM. Sometime ago I read that you can strip the DRM by doing a format conversion to the same format which leaves the music data unchanged but removes the DRM wrapper so I probably need to sit down to go through the process of doing this on everything!