I would adore an alternative program. Unlike the above user, I've tried sonic stages one through four, and have found all of them slow, unstable, inconvenient and counter-intuitive. I've tried the RealPlayer Minidisc software alternative, Adware Included and found it to be less unwieldy, but sadly limited in function, and, of course, bundled with Real. The whole OMG atrac thing is the working compromise between legality and an actually useful music player, which wouldn't be a problem but for it being cobbled together out of spare code and string.