Starbucks already offers an in-store CD burning service through its Hear Music outlets, plus it peddles compact discs, usually strategically placed between the cash register and pastry case as a last-minute buy.

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Once you e-file the return, take it off your hard drive and store it on a CD or flash drive in a safe place, like a lock box or safe.

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Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc. today announced future versions of its Rio MP3 devices will include the IBM disk drive, allowing listeners to store several hours of CD-quality music, according to the statement.

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Back then, most consumers would go to their local bricks-and-mortar music store to get it on CD.

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On the creative side, easy upload paths give musicians and filmmakers alternatives to the rigid product limitations of the iTunes store, Spotify and their feeder services like CD Baby and TuneCore.

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It doesn't have the instantaneous delivery aspect of the Internet but you will get much higher resolution and better overall quality since you can store several hundred megabytes of video on a CD.

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Everything has changed from 1995, put it on a CD-ROM, ship it in a box to the store and wait till you ever hear from a customer.

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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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Retailer Best Buy analyzed what products customers buy together -- CD buyers tend to load up on film, for example -- to help redesign its store layout.

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