By 2001, improvements in digital storage made a new approach possible. Sound Leisure introduced a kiosk based system offering approximately 525 tracks, significantly fewer than some CD machines at the time, but without the need for physical disc changes. Although initially more expensive than existing CD jukeboxes, the long term advantages were obvious.
Between 2001 and 2005, advances in storage capacity and connectivity made fully digital jukeboxes commercially viable. What had been an experimental concept in 1988 had become a workable platform for the future.