Word: musics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great gifts for new chums (or for yourself), explore the area's numerous music stores. Tower Records and HMV, the two music megastores of Harvard square, offer frequent bargains and wide selection. In Your Ear, located on Mt. Auburn St., is an elusive have for used music at affordable prices. And if you have a CVR, don't forget VideoPros in The Garage--great selection, convenient location and reasonable rates...
...lost my faint Boston accent and I'm droppin' the g's off of most'-ing' words these days. I'm walking to the grocery store and writing a check every time, and they never ask me for ID. My alarm clock is tuned to the local country music station, and I sing along in the shower to those twangy melodies I scorned in high school because I just couldn't wait to get off to the big city...
...drives are expected to sell in the U.S. this year, three times as many as last year. Partly, that's owing to ever falling costs; you can now get a decent one for $250 or less. Another reason is the spread of MP3, the hugely popular standard for downloading music online. What better way to store your MP3 collection than on CDs? Blank CD-R discs (which can record only once) cost about $2 each and hold 650 MB of data. If you figure an average of 5 MB per MP3 tune, one disc holds about 130 songs...
Something similar happened when I started duping music CDs. I made a copy of Art Pepper's Smack Up, but it didn't work in my 18-month-old portable CD player. The solution was a CD-R disc, which can hold up to 74 minutes of audio and worked just fine on my portable player, my PC and my Mac. You'll have to go to the Net to find conversion software that allows you to burn MP3s onto CDs and play them in your Discman, however. None was included. Why? Why? Why? I never got a good answer...
...GORE] Country music by John Michael Montgomery...