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...started burning my own CDs lately, and not since kindergarten have I made so many coasters. "Making coasters," in case you haven't heard, is the technical term for what happens when a mistake occurs in the audio CD (or CD-R) creation process. You can't re-record a CD-R, so you might as well rest your coffee mug on it. I bought a CD-R drive for my PC only a month ago, and my coffee table has never been so well protected...
...Then I tried MusicMatch (free at musicmatch.com plus $30 to upgrade to the fast-burning version). Success at last! But there were still problems. The program doesn't tell you if playlists are too long for the CD until you hit RECORD, and some of my MusicMatch-made CDs skipped like a heavyweight boxer. Real Jukebox (at Real.com also free for basic and $30 for fast-burning) had a better track record, but only because the Real people sent me a software patch that isn't publicly available yet. Before that, it wouldn't even admit my CD-R drive...
...what do I do with all these failed CDs? A colleague here told me her father hangs his in the garden to scare away birds and deer. Any other ideas? The reader with the most inventive use for a useless CD wins a box of coasters...
...Simpson, our arts editor, is no stranger to lists. Every December she oversees our 10 Best selections of movies, books, CDs and the like, and three years ago she came up with the artists-and-entertainers contingent for our TIME 100 series on the 20th century's most influential people. But little of that prepared her for this week's cover, the first installment of our America's Best series. "We had to come up with people we were sure were not just one-year wonders, but we also weren't interested in handing out Lifetime Achievement awards to folks...
...interpretations smart and unshowy; even the hardest-boiled prodigy-hating critics in the business go all mushy when she plays Bach, Beethoven, Barber and Bernstein. Wait, there's more. She has lovely, wide-set eyes and the figure of a ballerina. And she writes the liner notes for her CDs, as well as an online journal, hilaryhahn.com illustrated with photos that she takes herself. Next to her, even Haley Joel Osment looks like a chronic underachiever...