I've ripped nearly all my CDs with EAC as FLAC. Set up Gentoo on a fileshare server box and use 3 IDE disks (200Gb, 250Gb, 120Gb) for media via Samba. It takes about 15 minutes per CD to get a perfect copy using EAC but it helps doing 3 at a time (2 drives + laptop) and it's taken a few weeks to get them all. EAC really runs better/faster with more RAM, nearly twice as fast running a single instance on my laptop with 1.5Gb RAM vs 2 instances with 1Gb RAM on my desktop, even though my desktop is faster (2.8 Ghz P4 vs 2.0Ghz P4Mobile). Almost 4500 songs from about 400 CDs and it is so nice having them all available at the touch of a button. This does not include the ~300 complete live shows in shorten format already saved. I'm playing using Foobar which is an awesome program and plan to get the squeezebox to play through the MSB DAC.