Ed wrote:

> I bought a new car two weeks ago and it has XM radio. They have two
> stations (4 and 74) playing holiday music and both are very good. One is
> more of the classical stuff with chorale groups, the other more
> traditional with Como, Williams, Fitzgerald. . Neither has a barking dog
> or chipmunk.

I downloaded a bunch of Christmas songs from
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.christmas, put them onto a thumb drive which I
plugged into a spare USB port on my laptop, and ran the stereo output of my
laptop into the auxiliary input of my (aged but awesome) stereo system. I've
been listening to FANTASTIC stuff, some of which I'd never heard before.

Bob