We may buy a new CD player for the living room this weekend. We saw a unit at Target (a Phillips model). It has a single CD player, a single cassette unit (remember tapes), good speakers and it has a USB port which accepts mp3 players meaning you can download music to an mp3 unit, plug it in and play it through the system. We don't have an mp3 player but I do have a flash drive and I'm putting some music on it so when we go to look at the unit I can plug it in and see if/how it works. Our current CD player is about 15 years old and on its last legs. It's one of those combo units with a radio, CD and double tape unit. The CD player doesn't always work and one of the tape units is wonky. Time to upgrade.