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    From Jim the Geordie@jim@geordieland.com to uk.rec.sheds on Thu Jul 2 00:26:47 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds

    I was at a gig tonight and the performer was selling CDs of his music.
    I thought "how old school".

    Not having bought music from a shop for many years, I wondered whether
    you can buy 'albums' on a memory stick?

    BTW I know can load from CD my pc or to a memory stick to use in my car,
    but then I have a CD I don't need.
    --
    Jim the Geordie
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  • From hubops@hubops@ccanoemail.com to uk.rec.sheds on Wed Jul 1 19:31:32 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds

    On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 00:26:47 +0100, Jim the Geordie
    <jim@geordieland.com> wrote:

    I was at a gig tonight and the performer was selling CDs of his music.
    I thought "how old school".

    Not having bought music from a shop for many years, I wondered whether
    you can buy 'albums' on a memory stick?

    BTW I know can load from CD my pc or to a memory stick to use in my car,
    but then I have a CD I don't need.



    I have not seen that but I have been provided album downloads
    a few times.
    John T.
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  • From David@david@sn0wlink.com to uk.rec.sheds on Thu Jul 2 07:44:46 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds

    On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 00:26:47 +0100, Jim the Geordie wrote:

    I was at a gig tonight and the performer was selling CDs of his music. I thought "how old school".

    Not having bought music from a shop for many years, I wondered whether
    you can buy 'albums' on a memory stick?

    BTW I know can load from CD my pc or to a memory stick to use in my car,
    but then I have a CD I don't need.

    I think Korean KPOP groups do something like that called a 'Smart Album'. Usually a keyring sized cd case with a QR code to a digital download on
    it, however I've never seen a UK version of it myself.
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  • From Jeff Gaines@jgnewsid@outlook.com to uk.rec.sheds on Thu Jul 2 07:53:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds

    On 02/07/2026 in message <MPG.44afb29533933d189896ab@news.eternal-september.org> Jim the Geordie
    wrote:

    I was at a gig tonight and the performer was selling CDs of his music.
    I thought "how old school".

    Not having bought music from a shop for many years, I wondered whether
    you can buy 'albums' on a memory stick?

    BTW I know can load from CD my pc or to a memory stick to use in my car,
    but then I have a CD I don't need.

    You can buy individual tracks from Amazon up to 99p a pop then make your
    own thumbdrive.
    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    That's an amazing invention but who would ever want to use one of them? (President Hayes speaking to Alexander Graham Bell on the invention of the telephone)
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  • From Adrian@bulleid@ku.gro.lioff to uk.rec.sheds on Thu Jul 2 15:28:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds

    In message <MPG.44afb29533933d189896ab@news.eternal-september.org>, Jim
    the Geordie <jim@geordieland.com> writes
    Not having bought music from a shop for many years, I wondered whether
    you can buy 'albums' on a memory stick?


    Not recently, but I did hear of one album release that was done on USB
    stick rather than CD because of the size. IIRC, it was the complete
    works of J. S. Bach. I think they said that the number of CDs required
    would have been 96.

    Adrian
    --
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    replace "bulleid" with "adrian" - all mail to bulleid is rejected
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  • From Bernard Peek@bap@shrdlu.com to uk.rec.sheds on Thu Jul 2 19:56:06 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds

    On 2026-07-01, Jim the Geordie <jim@geordieland.com> wrote:
    I was at a gig tonight and the performer was selling CDs of his music.
    I thought "how old school".

    Not having bought music from a shop for many years, I wondered whether
    you can buy 'albums' on a memory stick?

    BTW I know can load from CD my pc or to a memory stick to use in my car,
    but then I have a CD I don't need.

    I haven't seen any for sale, it might have been a viable format if Internet downloads hadn't superseded it. The niche it would fit never materialised.
    --
    Bernard Peek
    bap@shrdlu.com
    Wigan
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  • From Abandoned Trolley@that.bloke@microsoft.com to uk.rec.sheds on Fri Jul 3 07:43:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds



    BTW I know can load from CD my pc or to a memory stick to use in my car,
    but then I have a CD I don't need.


    my last Ford Focus had a CD player in it which would play .mp3 files if
    they were burnt on to a CD and left in the root directory - but didnt
    seem to like CD-RW

    I haven't seen any for sale, it might have been a viable format if Internet downloads hadn't superseded it. The niche it would fit never materialised.




    withered on the vine - along with "DVD audio"
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  • From John Williamson@johnwilliamson@btinternet.com to uk.rec.sheds on Fri Jul 3 10:17:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds

    On 02/07/2026 00:26, Jim the Geordie wrote:
    I was at a gig tonight and the performer was selling CDs of his music.
    I thought "how old school".

    Not having bought music from a shop for many years, I wondered whether
    you can buy 'albums' on a memory stick?

    BTW I know can load from CD my pc or to a memory stick to use in my car,
    but then I have a CD I don't need.

    The usual way to do that is to download it and copy onto whatever memory device you prefer. If you buy high resolution downloads, you can get
    better than CD quality, though on most car systems, you'd be pushed to
    tell the difference between that and a 64kbps MP3...

    The benefit is that you can store a lot of music on a USB stick or SD
    card. I have one that can play 24 hours a day for a week without
    repeating a track. Buying each album on a stick means you need a *lot*
    of sticks in the car....
    --
    Tciao for Now!

    John.
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  • From Bernard Peek@bap@shrdlu.com to uk.rec.sheds on Fri Jul 3 19:36:51 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds

    On 2026-07-03, John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
    On 02/07/2026 00:26, Jim the Geordie wrote:
    I was at a gig tonight and the performer was selling CDs of his music.
    I thought "how old school".

    Not having bought music from a shop for many years, I wondered whether
    you can buy 'albums' on a memory stick?

    BTW I know can load from CD my pc or to a memory stick to use in my car,
    but then I have a CD I don't need.

    The usual way to do that is to download it and copy onto whatever memory device you prefer. If you buy high resolution downloads, you can get
    better than CD quality, though on most car systems, you'd be pushed to
    tell the difference between that and a 64kbps MP3...

    The benefit is that you can store a lot of music on a USB stick or SD
    card. I have one that can play 24 hours a day for a week without
    repeating a track. Buying each album on a stick means you need a *lot*
    of sticks in the car....

    Most of my audio files are in flac format which uses lossless compression.
    As a result the files are quite large. I have software on the server that carries out decompression and recoding/compression on the fly. So without using any extra disk-space I can have all the benefits of having different levels of compression depending on just what I want to use them for.
    --
    Bernard Peek
    bap@shrdlu.com
    Wigan
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