As you know, cassettes, on many occasions get damaged or are "eaten" by the cassette player. The CD, on the other hand, tends to get scratched and therefore unplayable and certainly from time to time there is no one to play the music at the arena.

With this new technology, music is stored digitally on the Rinkmusic™ system. The music is given to the rink via a CD or cassette, and is uploaded. When a Rinkmusic™ Key is presented to the Key Reader, the music program will be loaded for play. If another music program is currently playing, the new music program will be placed in the music queue. The skater’s name will be announced alerting them that their music is about to play. This is all done automatically starting with the swipe of a Rinkmusic™ Key.