I got this system home and fired it up and everything sounded great, until...I popped in an MP3 cd that I burned and realized there was not a shuffle button!!! Part of the convenience and fun of MP3's is making your own CD's and creating your own mixes of songs. Who wants to hear a bunch of MP3's in the same order everytime? Oh, okay there's a program funcion on it but I'm not going to sit there and program in 99 songs in random order just to lose the list when I shut it off. I was very disappointed with this particular product. Don't get me wrong, Philips has proven itself as a fine manufacturer (I have a portable CD/MP3 player that works great), but they really dropped the ball on this one.