I noticed the mentioning of a file that autoplays in computers that runs its own media player. Granted I'm not the most knowledgeable linux user, as far as I know linux doesnt autorun things, it may auto mount or auto play a cd depending on how its setup, but i dont think it runs windows-style autorun files. Along that line of thinking, I would think it possible to extract the .cda files on some kine of *nix system and encode to mp3 or whatever desired format for use on other cds or MD players. Just a thought, feel free to correct me.