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# Wal-Mart Offers Custom CD Service
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/walmart_offers_/
- Published: 2005-04-27T08:21:44.000Z
- Updated: 2005-04-27T08:21:44.000Z
- Description: 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. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2005/04/walmart_offers_.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Major Labels, Vinyl, Cassettes & Retail, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:10

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…