The Changes
If you've browsed our catalogue recently, you'll have noticed that there are no CD or Minidisc delivery options to choose from now.

Over the last couple of years, fewer customers have been requesting backing tracks on CD or Minidisc.

Most customers now prefer to download their backing tracks instantly in mp3 format.

Even those customers who still like backing tracks on a CD or a Minidisc prefer to get an instant download of their backing tracks and then burn them on to a CD or record them on to a Minidisc themselves.

Of course this makes perfect sense. By downloading your backing tracks in mp3 format you get your tracks immediately - there's no waiting for your postman to deliver them through your letterbox.

Why We Changed
In early 2009 we analyzed our customer records and they showed that more than 90% of our customers order backing tracks as mp3 downloads and download their backing tracks immediately after purchase (instant download).

And it came as no surprise that most customers preferred instant download of their backing tracks rather than receiving them by post...CD and Minidisc customers often found themselves on the receiving end of postal strikes and slow delivery by the Royal Mail.

As well as there being less demand for CD's and Minidiscs from customers, producing CD's and Minidiscs in our recording studio is more costly than providing downloads. MP3 delivery on the other hand is quicker, more efficient, more environmentally friendly, and it allows us to pass on greater discounts and savings to you, the customer, than ever before.

So in order to provide an efficient backing track delivery service becoming of a 21st century backing track company, we decided in early 2009 to remove the CD and Minidisc options from our catalogue pages.

We created articles on how to convert MP3 to Minidisc and MP3 to CD so that any of our old customers who still want their tracks on a CD or a Minidisc can download their tracks and create a CD or Minidisc themselves (by the way there's also an excellent article on how to burn the perfect CD which is worth reading).

If you have any enquiries about these changes we've made to delivery and media formats, please contact us via our Helpdesk.