[quote name="Hyperite"]Yeah, currently it doesn't rip in MP3, and there's no way to change the quality in which it DOES rip.[/quote]
althought I'm not 100% sure if this is the case or not, my suspicion would be that pioneer didnt want to license an MP3 encoder, thats probably the only reason it is the way it is.
that being said, if somebody is workin on getting it to play something else, they should be trying to get it to enc/dec AAC rather then MP3. Thats what itunes uses and the quality is much better then MP3.