Another thing is that in Europe a music CD costs on average 12-13 dollars, while here it's four.
"Ask me anything about the Iranians, " says one man who says he is travelling to Astara simply to drop off a music CD with friends.
But to everyone's surprise last year, Sony and Philips unveiled a single-sided DVD with a capacity of 3.7 gigabytes, more than five times that of a music CD.
Even a music CD is essentially a bundle of songs.
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Three months ago, Toshiba president Sato Fumio unveiled the SD Super Density Disc, which is no bigger than a music CD but packs a double punch: it can contain two full-length films dubbed in up to five languages and subtitled in eight more.
Not a single music CD or Microsoft CD was produced during those weeks.
Anthony Missano, an executive at Sbarro, was looking for a way to attract teens to the pizza-and-pasta chain when a soft drink sales rep handed him a fountain drink with a mini music CD tucked inside the plastic lid.
Still, she says she set out to make a dance CD, not a world-music CD.
Common sense would hold that a person who legally acquires copyrighted material such as a book or music CD generally has the right to resell it at a later time.
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Once you buy a book, music CD, or movie DVD in the United States, you are free to later sell it, lend it to a friend, or donate it to a library or charity without seeking permission from the copyright owner.
And Branford's label, Marsalis Music, is releasing a benefit CD, Celebration of New Orleans Music to Benefit the Musicares Hurricane Relief.
With hard times in mind, she put a dancing shoe in the window along with a CD of gospel music for good luck and to tell onlookers something about herself.
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Gerrard apparently wanted to change the music on a CD player and the 34-year-old McGee said the football star had acted aggressively in trying to grab the device.
"File names often do not distinctly identify the artist, the song, the title, or whether the music is from a CD (in which the Plaintiff recording companies may own the rights) or a recording of live concert (which many artists allow to be freely circulated widely and in various media for promotional reasons), " the brief stated.
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This is a CD that was really Argentine music, the traditions, you had Argentinean players.
The music on the CD is a mixed bag: fun and funky, with lots of high-energy rockers, a few radio hits and collaborations with the likes of David Bowie, Lenny Kravitz and U2 s Bono.
In the music industry, a generation has grown up acquiring and listening to music through digital downloads and streaming as CD sales rapidly declined.
Knowing her love of music, I recently decided to find a CD player that would enable her to play discs from her collection when she tires of radio programming.
"When we picked those 50, 000 titles we focused on having a substantial majority of our physical CD sales covered, " said Steve Boom, head of digital music at Amazon in a statement.
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"The music industry never thought of putting a number on the CD that indicates what it is, " says Mr Roberts.
Bob, a lot of people are moving toward downloading music, and CD sales are declining, so why this move to promote the compact disc now?
Could it introduce downloading to a broader base of older music fans, much the way early CD box sets by Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen persuaded consumers in the mid-'80s to try the CD format?
Universal Music says this is just a way of more effectively marketing the CD, but there are some industry commentators out there who are suggesting that this is really just pricing some back-catalogue CDs inline with their download versions.
Music starts playing instantly, even faster than it would from a local CD that required spin-up time.
We realised that if you had digital music, music that was digitised that is, then you could store it on flash memory or a hard drive and thus create a music player that could store many more songs that the Sony Walkmans or portable CD players that were the rage at the time.
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