<font color='#000000'>Thanks Chuck. To answer your questions - I have a ton of drive space as this PC will be dedicated to the system. I planned to use the PC itself to write the music to the hard drive and as far as compression, and quality of sound, I kind of figgured I would have to compress, I'm estimating 1000- 1400 songs, so if need be I'll sacrifice a little quality for quantity. That being said, am I moving in the right direction ? Is a multi-channel receiver (as I put it) what I sould be looking for ? and what about the software I'll need to transfer, house and call up the data ? Thanks again to all.</font>