The Control Strip was pretty anaemic though. It was more like the tray (i.e. a dumping ground for stuff people don't regularly interact with). But still, when you do want to play a CD, there you have it in one click, rather than one click blessed by Fitt's Law to drop a menu down, followed by moving back down carefully to find the thing you actually want. In the meantime I just typed the command with autocompletion in Emacs and moved on with my life.