if they are planning on selling music on these the larger capacity isn't important enough to justify buying new players how many albums are there that actually fill one regular cd let alone 12

Actually, it has smaller capacity than a CD - 500 MB vs 650 MB on a regular data CD-ROM. They are talking compressed audio when they say "a dozen albums on each disc". This is a pity because not being able to publish many current albums onto this new format with the same quality will surely prevent them from obsoleting CDs. Unless they are planning on using a lossless codec...

Borislav