Hey I am a new Sansa Fuze owner - who is waiting till Christmas to enjoy it. My initial question is #1 can you just rip Cd's to your player, or do you have rip them to the computer first? #2 what media players work best ? We have had strange luck with Roxio creator 9, We do have windows media 11, but sometimes the songs skip at the end of a track, Winamp 5.5 does ok - but don't know if I can send music from there! A friend of mine who writes and records says Nero is best. I would like to keep music downloading as simple as possible, yet retain quality video and music. Oh and in case anyone knows is there a way to seperate video from music - if you wanted to?