There aren't a lot of extra features here, but you will find repeat, shuffle, and intro-play modes as well as an equalizer with Rock, Jazz, and Classical settings. Plus, you can use the 3-D mode with each setting to add a sense of space around the recording. On a PC with a single parallel port, you'll have to unhook your printer each time you want to transfer music. A dongle I had attached to my printer port to run another program kept my PC and the Yepp from communicating, but once I removed it, everything went smoothly. It's kind of a pain, though, to switch back and forth between the RealNetwork ripper and the Yepp's file manager.
Operation is smoother when the two functions are in the same application.
It took me only a few minutes to rip some files and download them into the YP-E64's flash memory. A parallel-port connection is usually not as fast as a USB connection, but in this case transfers seemed to run at about 115 kbps, which is fairly speedy. I downloaded 22 MB of test files in about 4 minutes. The player operated as expected, but you have to press the button sloooowly to move from track to track. On most CD players, you can press as fast as you want, and the transport eventually catches up.