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Paypal is the only payment method that allows me to auction individual CDs in the US. A money order would cost $10 and takes two weeks to arrive. For transactions within the EU (euro zone), I prefer bank transfers which cost $0.2 to the payer and nothing to the person that receives the money.

Sorry for nitpicking, but there is a strange choice of words in this news report. The EU commission doesn't "recommend" or "back" mergers, it just can oppose it or not. Like the competition authority in every country, the Commission checks if the merger threatens competition on the EU market. If the examination of the case reveals no sufficient arguments to oppose the merger, the EU must approve it. Personally I think this growing concentration in the music industry (omly four big record companies remain) is bad for the diversity in the sector.

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I think this would rather show that they have no arrangement with EMI. The "spanish Blue Note" CDs had initially been released only as a 50CD-Box sold by Time Life Spain in the late 90's, and they were not meant to be sold as single discs, some of which compete with the official Blue Note reissues.

Are you broke?

No, the data are on the hard drive, which keeps data without power. If the battery fails, the data can still be accessed by connecting the player to the power supply But you loose your data when the Ipod gets lost or stolen, which happens much more often than battery failure. So always keep your files on backup CD-Rs, if they are not sourced from your audio CDs. The hard drive of your PC can fail too, so that's not a reliable backup either.

Could there be unreleased stuff from the 80's?

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=34827

Two tracks from the "Someday my prince will come" album feature Trane and are in the Miles & Trane box: 1. Someday My Prince Will Come 5. Teo That's almost half of the album (18:30)

As this link is changing every day, here is the Kenny G. cartoon:

This was reported in italian and spanish news in April: Francia, polizia apre indagine su sospetti militanti dell'Eta El máximo jefe de ETA pudo haber escapado del cerco de la Policía gala Apart from this, the capture of the two ETA terrorists doesn't seem to have made big news.

We urgently need a Ronald Reagan subforum in Politics

Five discs later it looked like this

I guess that this concert was taped for TV broadcast, and that the DVD producers for both releases simply put that TV programme on the discs.

You say potato and he say kerfuffle Let's call the whole thing off

Here are links to both DVDs: Immortal: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=6716460 ($20, only 2 available) http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?PID=6654762 (the same disc, Holland import, $28, backordered) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001Y4MPO/ ($23, only 1 in stock) Unicorn Video: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?PID=6661495 ($10.6, backordered) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00019GHJS/ ($13.5, only one in stock) The first one is region-free, the second one Region 1 (US). Both are in the NTSC picture format. The first version is also available here: Qualiton Imports Ltd

I would avoid getting the CDs into slimmer cases, because one will have to store the empty jewel cases somewhere anyhow (don't forget that many CDs are now in digipacs). Try to find or make shelves that are higher, and that can be placed in two rows (a smaller one that slides sideways in front of the large one). CDs are only 13cm deep, so it should be possible to store them in two rows.

Some ideas from this thread:

This is probably not that new, but I just dicovered that the Naxos homepage offers the possibility to listen online to complete CDs. Most labels or online stores only have 30 second audio clips, which are almost useless especially with classical music, but Naxos has for every CD all the tracks available for online streaming. Browse or search their catalogue and select any album, all titles I've seen so far have audio available. The sound is of course heavily compressed (20 kbit/s bitrate, 22kHz sample rate, stereo), so the audio quality is no better than AM radio, but that's enough to evaluate unfamiliar classical works. And Naxos has many of them, because it offers the biggest repertoire of all classical labels. In order to listen to the streams you need Windows Media Player 7 or higher, and you need to register for free. The email address is not being verified, you can login immediately after creating an account. There are two types of streams available, for modem and broadband (20 kbit/s) users. I just listened to the complete "Hamlet" film music by Shostakovich, which made me decide to buy the Naxos disc.

It reminds me of a Monty Python (?) scene in a restaurant, where an extremely fat customer digests his meal, suddenly inflates to balloon size and finally explodes.

He also has concerts in Japan scheduled for June 10-24 http://senators.free.fr/Live/Concerts_Sche...3&go_green.y=11

Lois Gilbert, the administrator of Jazz Corner, just posted this: http://jazzcornertalk.com/speakeasy/showthread.php?t=5925

I bought japan import CDs of Wayne Shorter's "Wayning moments" and "Second Genesis" (the only albums from the Mosaic set I really need) from Hans, and they sound much better than the Blue Moon CDs, which seem to have been made from inferior tape copies. I'm sure the Mosaic sounds at least as good as the japanese CDs, otherwise Hans wouln't have sold them