Each minute of CD-quality music consumes slightly more than 10 megabytes of disk space.

A blank MiniDisc costs about $2 and can hold 74 minutes of CD-quality music.

Chip-based memory cards that MP3 and other digital audio players use can cost up to about $100 and hold an hour to two hours of CD-quality music.

IF there is a "Phantom Menace" of the Internet, it's MP3, the compression software that enables CD-quality music to be sent on line.

The Clik disc, which holds 40 megabytes or about 40 minutes of near CD-quality music, costs about $10 a piece.

I don't want to take my wonderful CD-quality music and play it in lossy 256kbps!

For example, a 64-megabyte flash memory card can cost well over $100 and hold about an hour of CD-quality music.

Mr. Volk said a $10 DataPlay disc can hold five hours of CD-quality music.

The I-Jam can hold only one card at a time, meaning that it gives only 16 minutes of playback of near CD-quality music.

Satellite radio, also called digital radio, offers uninterrupted, near CD-quality music beamed to your radio from space.