Hi again. Thanks for replying so quickly. I have a sony home deck model NO-MDS-JE510.Which according to the manual has got digital optical out. so I think by what Ive read here I can with the right sound card re-record my MDs to my pc. Hope ive got that right. the main reason Im asking all this is because my Sony car unit has packed up again for the second time, and am thinking of calling it a day with It.Sorry to drone on with all this, but Im assuming that once there on the pc I can then re-organise them into different formats? Again thanks everyone. Chris.