I heard on NPR this morning that Starbucks is implementing Media Bars. What an idea! Go in and select a bunch of songs online and burn a CD. It is such a natural for a place that has broadband Internet connections already in place. It takes 4 minutes or so to burn a CD. I imagine it would take longer to select the songs to burn. And you can listen to the songs before buying them.

I was just thinking that if you wanted to make a travelling music CD it would be so easy. I hope that they are using .WAV files and not mp3 or lower compression files. Music videos can be next.

Of course it is Starbucks, which means it stinks to high heaven of COFFEE. I have accidently wandered into one or two, following Elaine around, and quickly leave before I become physically ill from the malodorous smell. But, it is still a wonderful idea.