I used to really be into the outrageously magnificent sounds of Günther. Then Mark Gormley came along and showed me what real music was all about. His absolute awesomeness can't easily be put into words. Thankfully, it can very easily be put into videos. The sheer, unbridled talent of this amazing singer/songwriter will spoil you for his music forever. And he's Canadian, so he's got that going for him too!

For those people searching for more of Mark Gormley's hard rocking sounds, YouTube's got it all.

Here's a catchy classic from the Muppet Show. You'll be singing it in your head all day!

Just Hear It is a very interesting and simple site that asks you to type in the name of any song, which it will then play. It' s currently in a private beta, but users can still enter songs and create playlists. I didn't do extensive testing, but I wasn't able to stump it.

Now, if we only still had access to Pandora in Canada....

Maximum PC employs a few audio "experts" to see if compressed MP3 files make a big difference to sound quality.

With the possible exception of the USB Key that survived a washing and drying cycle, no other Maximum PC Challenge has ever surprised us as much as this one. It’s downright humiliating, in fact, that in many cases, we were unable to tell the difference between an uncompressed track and one encoded at 160Kb/s, the bit rate most of us considered the absolute minimum acceptable for even portable players.

They also come out pretty solidly in favour of variable bitrate encoding, which I'm sure is no big surprise to anyone.