I also have quite the cd colection, I just rip them all to mp3 and burn them to disc. My car player decodes mp3's. One step short of XM or Sirius :)
Same here... I have about 500 CD's worth of music, which will likely end up consuming 250GB of hard drive space when I eventually store them all as WAV files. Then a nice cron job every night to check for new WAV files and automatically rip them to MP3 and OGG, and I'm good to go. Someday when I have time, of course.
Cheers,
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com