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A system for selling, manufacturing and distributing a custom digital data product from retail stores, over the Internet, over the telephone, or by electronic means (e.g., fax, e-mail, and the like) wherein a customer is provided (e.g., by electronic mail verification) order tracking information. Af

A system for selling, manufacturing and distributing a custom digital data product from retail stores, over the Internet, over the telephone, or by electronic means (e.g., fax, e-mail, and the like) wherein a customer is provided (e.g., by electronic mail verification) order tracking information. After a customer selects a "set" of sound recordings or data from a library or catalog of such recordings or data and payment or credit is received or verified, an image of the "set" is assembled from a storage or "disk" farm. The image is preferably assembled at a manufacturing facility, e.g., a CD-ROM burner farm, where the product is then made. Every data object on the product may have a code associated therewith for later reference. The disk and burner farms communicate via a high speed communications subsystem to facilitate continuous processing. Upon assembly and manufacture, the product is packaged and shipped. Throughout the manufacture and distribution, the customer may track the process by activating a hyperlink in one or more e-mail confirmation messages provided by the service provider, or by entering order/tracking numbers from retail terminals or by telephone, or the like.

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1. A method of manufacturing a digital data product, the digital data product having digital information retrieved from across a network connection, the digital information stored in one or more information storage devices connected to the network, one or more burner machines connected to the networ

1. A method of manufacturing a digital data product, the digital data product having digital information retrieved from across a network connection, the digital information stored in one or more information storage devices connected to the network, one or more burner machines connected to the network, the method comprising the steps of:selecting one or more digital data files from the one or more information storage devices; identifying one of the one or more burner machines to manufacture the digital data product; transferring each of the digital data files of the set to the identified burner machine; recording the digital data files of the set to a physical medium; and concurrently with the step of recording, reducing the number of network requests to the identified burner from any of the other devices communicatively coupled to the network.