Even with equal pricing, the retail CD-ROM has the advantage of convenience, for the purchaser of downloaded music would have to burn the CD-ROM himself.

To transfer downloaded music to a compatible portable music player, an additional $6 per month were added to both plans.

By adding an additional 32 megabytes, the company says, the device can play downloaded music for more than two hours before it's time to run back to the desktop for a refill.

He had all of his wedding photos and many hundreds of dollars' worth of downloaded music on his drive.

In April the company promised to give away a multimedia CD player that plays downloaded music off the Internet to new registered users.

- 1 month 17 days ago napster was king of downloaded music i still got my first cd i ever recored from napster still plays great after all these years.

Superfast cable lines that replace telephone hookups are vastly improving the audio quality of downloaded music.

Rather than buy new CD's, the theory goes, people will burn downloaded music onto CD-R's or burn a copy of a friend's CD.

The PC supports Windows Vista's Media Center software for recording and playing back live television as well as downloaded music and movies.

And encryption schemes that lock the use of downloaded music to the computer that performed the download have not been popular for obvious reasons.