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There is nothing more tedious than a blog that starts:

Mood: Restless. Currently listening to: X&Y, Coldplay

However I have just burned a CD in ATRAC3Plus format using Sony SonicStage which contains 15 albums !

• The Killers - Hot Fuss
• Interpol - Antics
• Snow Patrol - Final Straw
• British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power
• The Chameleons - Live at the Academy (2 discs)
• Morrissey - Beethoven is Deaf
• Radiohead - The Bends
• R.E.M - Reveal
• Ride - Nowhere
• Idlewild - The Remote Part
• New Order - Get Ready
• Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
• Nirvana - Never Mind
• The Chameleons - Strip
• The Fall - Psykick Dance Hall (3 discs)

There was even 3MB left free. I don't care that ATRAC is a lossy format. I am used to listening to bootlegs on TDK 90's that sound as though they were recorded in a bunker.

I have got an old radio cassette in my car with a aerial mounted in the rear windscreen. The MW reception is pretty poor and if you go under a bridge, the interference nearly makes your ears bleed. As I listen to Radio 5 Live quite a lot, this is rather irritating.

After months of prevaricating and thinking, I impetuously went out and bought a Sony DAB6650. This is a DAB radio (with FM/MW/LW as well) and a CD player. The unit looks and sounds great and I now have access to lots of different DAB stations.

Although I haven't travelled that far yet, the digital sound quality is excellent, even in towns and under bridges.

The only slight downside is that the CD formats include MP3 or Atrac but does not include WMA. Unfortunately all my CD's are ripped in WMA format but I have a handful also copied in Atrac format for my Sony MD player.