I actually agree, but there's a time issue, there. When I ripped my CDs years ago, when I got my first empeg, I made the mistake to make them MP3. So, the point is exactly that: I am going to re-rip only when the effort is worth. Re-ripping to flac now would be a useless pain. I'd rather spend my time in finding some decent photo collection organizer and start tagging. That, too, is a lot of fun (!!), but I'd get some more tangible benefit from it right now.