I had a suspicion that would be the case...real time, waste of time. How about I just sell the unit on Ebay for 50p? With MP3 and HD, MD might aswell stand for 'My-Dick'. Or better still, I could convert it into millions of particles via my foot, send them to Sony, and tell them that I find a recording device with a USB port which is supposed to be supported by their 'software' a complete contradictary, then, connect my Technics 1200mk5's directly to my PC via my Pioneer mixer and digital leads as you rightly said, and record without any copyright-priority commercially orientated capitalist program, popping up and telling me my music I purchased lagitimately and recorded on their device, isn't 'appropriate' for their 26mb program, which took two days to install, and now only serves me as track renaming tool. I have a Sony PSP,PS2,TV,DVD Recorder, DVD player, DVD-RW drive, Monitor, Camera, and VHS recorder. All top notch. I think any copyright infringement I wasn't going to make anyway, would be more than compensated for my purchases over the years, and just about cover the 3.99 of me illegally downloading 'Kylie Minogue - I Should be so lucky if I can get this on to MD' dont you?. Phew...that's better.