Before you even begin looking for an MP3 player, a good place to start would be to begin transferring your CDs onto your computer. Just stick one in the CD-ROM drive and see what happens. If you are using a PC with a Windows operating system, you probably already have their Media Player software installed, and you should be prompted with a list of things to do (listen to the CD tracks, rip them onto your computer, etc.) If you have over 300 CDs, it will certainly take a while to get them all on your computer's hard drive, but I found that if you spend a lot of time at your computer anyway, a bit of multi-tasking (doing busy work, while occasionally changing CDs while they rip) makes the process a bit faster.
Once you do choose an MP3 player, you can simply transfer the already converted MP3 files right from your computer, and there are numerous ways to connect the players to your car and home stereo, and build some custom playlists, that make your CD collection gather dust. I hope this helped. Good luck and have fun.
As you can guess I?m not very tech savvy. But I like to listen to music. I read somewhere that a MP3 player could store my entire collection of CD?s (I have about 300 CD?s) plus would like to have room to add more. This appeals to me if you can do the following: Some how load the CD?s to the MP3 player and the songs and titles get listed. Hopefully this process won?t take weeks of my time and take a tech degree to complete. You should then be able to play your MP3 player in your car stereo and home stereo. Being able to carry the MP3 player around and listening to music with headphones has no appeal to me, I never used a Walkman. But being able to listen to my music without changing CD?s, now that?s cool.

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