Felix, although direct encoding is a cool feature, I think you'll find that it happens in real time. That means that if you want to record a whole CD it'll take like 70 mins. However, if you rip it from CD then copy it to your MP3 player in MP3 format it will take much less time. So there is a pretty big need for MP3 ENCODING software [img]tongue.gif[/img]
CDEx does ripping and on-the-fly MP3 encoding BTW so is pretty cool. Anyway, I sometimes like to listen to my CDs that I ripped to MP3 from my computer so that's another reason to rip them.