My own record label uses CDR format Dick and I do agree with you. I do not however produce anyone else's work. However you will have heard some of its contents when you have visited Whitby it drives most of the locals mad as the have to listen to the same track every half hour as the Mini Endeavour replica sails into Whitby Harbour. Still most of the visitors like it (up to 12000 a day) and although we have received or nor have we asked for any royalties I think that we are quiet happy just to have the music heard by the general public. The fact that the Mini Endeavour has been playing this CDR for 5 seasons or more and ever half hour should stand as testament to CDR durability.

It don't get much better when you visit Whitby Abbey New Visitors centre they play one track the "Whitby Fisherman's Hymn" every half hour on a sixty foot screen.

I'm not trying to sell this CD it is what was asked for by English Heritage songs as sung in the Pubs in Whitby warts and all. Do you know recording it kept us out of the Pub for the best part of two hours. The fact that we were paid to record it for English Heritage means that we don't receive any royalties from them ether however we did stipulate that we should have a copy of the Master. The money from the resulting production and sale has enabled the rest of the Lads to produce and record a new CD I do not know on what foremat.