Hello, I want to buy a small HD based mp3 player. I was thinking about the rio nitrus. My main question is can it be used as an external drive? If not does the rio software permit music without licenses? I had an older rio 600 (or something like that) and it asked for licenses for my mp3's (which was a pain, even my legal ones didn't have licenses!). My other question is, do you ever have to wait for the disk to spin up (I have an archos right now and I hate waiting for the disk to spin). Thanks