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Take this from a software developer deep within the bowels of convergence: The current audio quality of downloadable Internet music SUCKS. I'll wait until broadband wireless hits the streets and I can get non-lossy music on my disc. Other than that, with a fat pipe to my home: (ISDN AND cable modem), I find that the Web servers are the problem. I prefer to stream when I'm at work and I forgot my (GASP!) CDs . . . but still there are gaps. Downloads can be resource hogs; as a network guy, I detest the periodic loads they involve.