Wal-Mart Offers Custom CD Service

According to Digital Music, "...Wal-Mart has officially unveiled its custom CD creation service, ...Users can compile 3 songs from a 500,000 track catalog for $4.62, with each additional track offered for $0.88...The service also lets users personalize the CD title and create customized album artwork from a selection of images. Once the compilations are created, the finished CDs are mailed to a specified address, complete with the customized packaging."

The move is another step by Wal-Mart into digital music, though its $0.88 download store has so far failed to create a spark. But the custom CD concept avoids downloads entirely, delivering a clean CD to the recipient without any hard drive involvement. That could make waves with the massive Wal-Mart customer base, with many hesitant to toe the digital download waters..."

Hypebot:  Sounds interesting, but Walmart is, as usual, late to this game.  Now if they would only put these machines in their stores like digital photo kiosks...