Need Suggestions for Reception Lobby Music

Can anyone suggest some good, inexpensive music mix CDs on the iTunes Music Store that would be appropriate for a business's reception lobby? We have a Mac Mini running a plasma screen and connected to the sound system. I'm tasked with finding music. My suggestion to spend a couple of hundred on selected iTunes downloads was deemed too expensive. I'm looking for some decent jazz/blues/R&B/instrumental CDs -- you know the type -- 50 or more songs by a variety of artists. Cheap, but not elevator music.

Craig:
Even if you buy the music off of the iTunes Music Store, you will still need to obtain the copyright release's for each song to play them in a public area such as your business's reception lobby. My recommendation would be to contact a satilite service that can pipe the music in and already pays the royalties for you. My Business is doing this and we have a large variety of music to listen to and it isn't elevator music and its legal.

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    On the laptop login as the users new network login, assuming you have configured things on the server appropriately you will get asked if you want to create a mobile account.
    On the laptop once it has created the account it will finish logging in to an empty account. Now log out.
    On the laptop log in as the admin account again.
    On the laptop run Terminal
    On the laptop mv (move/rename) the old home directory to the correct name for the account
    On the laptop do sudo chown -R usersnewshortname usersnewshortname. This makes sure the new account owns all the old files.
    All the above will move the users home directory from the old standlone account to a network account.

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