I just swallowed hard and paid the $60. I haven't found that it hijacks worse than anything else, and it has very powerful CD recognition and ripping software. (This has been very important as a producer - there's a lot of legitimate ripping songs and sending .mp3s back and forth that takes place and the lesser programs get awfully difficult about that sort of thing.)

My gripe with it is that it's HUGE and very slow to load - sloppy programming at work?

Dan