Hm, I'd just grab a RioVolt MP3 CD player. What's so bad about MP3 CDs? 11CD's worth of music on a single disk. Ok, not searchable or indexed, but the RioVolt has a nice directory structure navigation method. And the newer ones are pretty nice, I've heard. I have the original (which isn't SO hot, but it's kept me company on my overseas trips many a time). Consider it.