Let's Get Digital

If your CD collection has been amassing dust since the last iPod gifting, it's time to consider a digital conversion. When you are starved for time or technically impaired, there are outsourcing options that will save you from the laborious task of doing it on your own.

Several popular outputs we discovered including ReadyRips.com, MusicShifter.com and RipDigital.com, will have you're your music library picked up, converted into digital format and shipped back to you in a matter of days. While the costs typically range from 69¢-$1.00 per CD based on volume, MusicShifter.com offers a "try before you buy" trial order of 10 CD's for free.

Looking for couture collections to suit your mood? You don't need to be a music maven to get plugged in to the hippest trends in music.

Audiostiles.com will customize perfect prêt-a-porter play lists designed specially for you. That's right! Once you complete a series of questions featured in the online on their website, their seasoned music professionals will assemble a collection of tunes based on your individual style, preferences or needs. They even have pre-programmed collections to select from that are ideal for mellowing out, stepping out, dining out single style!

The editors at Single Edition contacted founder of Audiostiles, Jeremy Abrams, who offered up customized list of "guilty pleasure" songs to listen to when no one else is around.

Guilty Pleasures Playlist for Women
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time of My Life
Denice Williams - Let's Hear It For The Boy
Destiny's Child - Independent Women Pt 1.
Meatloaf - Paradise by The Dashboard Lights
Squeeze - Tempted
Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
Madonna - Dress You Up
Dianna Ross - I'm Coming Up Out

Guilty-Pleasures Customized Playlist for Men
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
Michael Jackson - Man In the Mirror
Starship - We Built This City
Lionel Richie - All Night Long
Toto - Africa
Bon Jovi - Living On A Prayer
Guns'n Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine

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