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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.When you turn a music track on your pc into an mp3 track you can choose at which quality you want to save it. Obviously the higher the quality, the greater the file size. The bitrate of 128 bps corresponds roughly to cd quality so saving at that size will give you tracks that sound pretty much as good as cd, and take up about 1 megabyte per minute.
Most players will connect to your pc via USB, and will simply appear as an extra drive on the screen. You can then just drag and drop the tracks you want.
I'm sure you wouldn't want to save illegaly obtained tracks on it, but basically - if it's on your pc, you can get it on to your mp3 player.
As far as the format becoming outdated, in some minds it already is! There are other digital storgae formats such as WMA and Ogg-Vorbis. Each have their own pros and cons, such as smaller file sizes for the same quality. Most players will say which formats they are compatible with.
I have recently bought my first MP3 player, a 256Mb version by Panasonic. Sound quality is superb, transferring via drag and drop is wonderfully fast. The only drawback with 256 Mb is that I can't get enough music on it!! To this end, my wife has promised me a 4Gb version for Christmas - I can't wait.
Go ahead, treat yourself - or better still, get someone to treat you. Happy listening.