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While we're on the topic of MP3... I have a freind with a killer laptop who, when travelling to Germany recently, was told that he couldn't bring a portable CD player onto the plane (news to me, but whatever...). Anyway, his laptop's hard drive is fat and empty enough to hold about 100 mp3 tracks, which he put on the machine at home the day before the trip. No messy CD's to carry around. I caould easily imagine the next step for him: burn CD's with 200 mp3 tracks on it and bring five or six on a trip and basically have his whole CD collection in one little package. All you need is a $5000 notebook computer. Ah, such is the life of the digital elite! -CF

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>While we're on the topic of MP3... > >I have a freind with a killer laptop who, when travelling to Germany >recently, was told that he couldn't bring a portable CD player onto the >plane (news to me, but whatever...). > >Anyway, his laptop's hard drive is fat and empty enough to hold about 100 >mp3 tracks, which he put on the machine at home the day before the trip. >No messy CD's to carry around. I caould easily imagine the next step for >him: burn CD's with 200 mp3 tracks on it and bring five or six on a trip >and basically have his whole CD collection in one little package. All you >need is a $5000 notebook computer. > >Ah, such is the life of the digital elite! > >-CF >

THere is already a japanese firm that has a a program and hardware setup to burn audio cds STRAIGHT from .mp3s! No mp3->AIFF conversions, etc. A. Mukerjee Vassar College Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. --Jonathan Swift

Actually, perhaps instead of distributing music over the internet through time-consuming and piracy-vulnerable mp3 downloads, companies could charge $25 a pop for people ordering custom CD's burned for them. Imagine this: A web site where "X-Label" (let's say) allows users to enter in a credit card number and assemble a short list of songs from the X-Label back catalog they want put on a custom mix cd. The X-Label HQ has a server with their entire catalog on it as mp3 files and one of those large CD-ROM burners which holds 50 blank disks in a stack for small-scale mass production. When the user has finished entering their info, the CD is automatically burned and the customer's address is printed on a sticker. A pile of CDs and stickers accumulates each day. This pile is sorted out by some flunky every morning who puts the CDs into packages, puts the stickers on them, and mails them off to the customer. This would be cool... for the label that is, not for us pirates;) -CF