Incidentally, something I was very impressed with, regarding the Creative software, that I forgot to mention earlier.

I have a home-made CD-R, that I created by recording two vinyl albums by the same artist. The two albums both happened to fit onto a CD.

When I used the "Rip CD" facility to get them from the CD onto the PC and thence the mp3 player, I expected it to draw a blank, and ask me to enter the details manually (as usually happens with such CD-Rs).

I was gobsmacked to find the artist and track titles had been correctly filled in. I can only assume the two albums are commercially available on a single CD, and that somehow the software was able to match my CD with that. The software must actually try to match the music, as there were obviously no matching serial numbers or anything like that on my CD-R. Quite how it does this, when my CD-R has the vinyl crackles, etc. is beyond me - but it did (just for this one, unfortunately not for any of the others I tried).