Recently I purchased, brand new, a complete set of the Haydn symphones on compact discs, for £24.  Haydn symphonies last around twenty minutes each, usually a bit more, and there are over a hundred of them, so that’s about thirty hours or more of music.  Yet I only purchased eight CDs. The secret was that they were stored not as on regular CDs, but as high quality MP3 files, which...

A bulldozer crushes pirated CDs and DVDs at a parking lot in the Beirut suburb of Kfarshima on Feb. 24. The Lebanese Intellectual Property Unit affiliated with the judicial police forces destroyed about 100,000 pirated CDs and DVDs confiscated from Lebanese vendors and traders. Soaring piracy of CDs, DVDs, business software, and cable networks has devastated the cinema, video, and related industri...

Over at BULS Brigid Jones, the society’s secretary, has been updating her MP3 Player while writing a piece about Bush Music. Below is a song that I would like to recommend her to downloaded for her MP3 Player…Teehe! :-P       

Rules outlawing the transfer of content from CDs or DVDs on to MP3 files and computers for personal use are set to be scrapped by the government.

On the day I took this photo, and these photos, I also bought some classical CDs, and I can report that second hand classical CDs, of the decent but not stellar sort, can now cost as little as 20p.  Yes indeed.  Neil the Classical CD Barrow Man who plies his trade in Lower Marsh sold me these: The first of the Brahms song CDs would have been worth the entire price.  It features the ...

If you've got an MP3 player, and have even a passing interest in jazz music, you really should consider downloading The History of Blue Note, 70th Anniversary. For just a penny short of eight quid, from itunes of Amazon, you get 70 classic tracks from some of the finest jazz musicians of the last seven decades. Over 7 hours of music, and including jazz classics such as Lee Morgan's The S...

A CHARITY shop in Nantwich is appealing for CDs after the Christmas rush left it with none.

I finally got round to having a cool radio/CD/MP3 player installed in the car (£90 including fitting at Halfords, very efficient) and slapped in a CD with 200 MP3 tracks on it. Hurray! Only some of them didn't play. Boo! Why? Because a recent update to iTunes has reset the default in Preferences/Importing from 'MP3' to 'AAC', which won't work on a player set up ...

Simply stated a credit-default swap, or CDS, is a way for the owner of an asset like a bond to buy an insurance policy to protect themselves in the event the issuer of that bond defaults. But, because the CDS market is unregulated, there is $60 trillion of so in these instruments that are not only purchased by actual owners of the debt, but by speculators betting that the issuing entity will indee...

Lower Marsh, just beyond Waterloo Station from me, is one of my favourite London streets. It has carts loaded up with goodies from vans, and amongst these goodies are classical CDs sold by a bloke called Neil. A few yards due west from where Neil plies his trade, there is Gramex, a regular shop, which also sells an abundance of classical CDs. These CDs cost far less than downloads from the interne...