{"id":32,"date":"2004-10-19T08:42:25","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T14:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=32"},"modified":"2004-10-19T08:42:25","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T14:42:25","slug":"what-an-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2004\/10\/what-an-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"What an Idea!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard on NPR this morning that Starbucks is implementing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starbucks.com\/hearmusic\/mediabar.asp?category_name=Media+Bar\">Media Bars<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2004\/10\/what-an-idea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What an Idea!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}