OK, I'll admit to being as naive about portable players such as these as much as I am about game systems!

For those of you who might have seen some of my posts recently concerning whether I want to rip all of my ~700 CDs into a hard drive and set up a networked media player in my living room OR re-load all the CDs into the jukeboxes and go through the long process of entering all the CD info into the jukeboxes............

Would one of these type of devices be my salvation? Can I, (for example):

**** rip all of my CDs onto a computer HD at a high enough data rate to make them virtually or completely indistinguishable from the oiginal CD, then:

****Transfer them to an iPod or Nomad-type device with easily "sortable" or "findable" ergonomics, then:

**** Place the player in a "dock" maybe... in my HT system or in my car?

Is this basically the type of functionality that these devices offer?


::::::: No disrespect to Axiom, but my favorite woofer is my yellow lab :::::::