Spent some time at Shoppers’ Stop’s Music Store yesterday. One of the more unusual items on sale there was a smallish clutch of `MP3 Audio CDs’ from T-Series. Now I don’t listen to the stuff T-Series produces, but they do well in the Hindi/Devotional music space, and this is a good move if done right. The CDs were priced at Rs 150 which is about right; but they all seemed to have around only 20 numbers each — which seems too few for the compression levels Layer 3 encoding can achieve: for Rs 150 I’d expect at least 50 to 75 numbers at a high bitrate — 256 kbit or better. Has anyone out there actually bought these things? After this and Indiatimes’ music download service and I’d be really, really curious to see if any other Indian vendors are taking the digital music plunge.