CHAPEL HILL -- The iPod was hooked up, the CD cases neatly displayed: Southern Culture on the Skids, Stillhouse Bottom Band, The Best of the ArtsCenter's American Roots Series, 2004-2007.

Everything was set to debut the Orange County Wall of Music at the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Center last week except one thing.

The iPod was cabled for theft protection before the music was uploaded.

"It goes to show you, the future technology is ruled by youth," director Laurie Paolicelli said Friday. She has Town Council member Bill Strom's son, Aaron, coming in this week to figure it out.

The Wall of Music, the brainchild of Chapel Hill News columnist and local music lover Blair Pollock, is designed to promote Orange County's music scene.

Tucked into a corner of the bureau's 501 W. Franklin St. homespun office, it holds about 50 CDs and even more music stored on a computer. Roots rock band Highway 54 dropped off a CD Thursday.

Frank Heath of Cat's Cradle will provide information about many of the local acts, and brochures about local venues will be added to the wall to send visitors to clubs from Franklin Street to Churton Street.

But it's not just the music clubs that the Wall of Music will help.

"We have tons of people planning weddings," Paolicelli said of the 13,000 or so folks who drop by. Future brides- and grooms-to-be will soon be able to audition bands for their nuptials by headphone.

"This is really about our local working class (musicians)," Paolicelli said. "Not just the James Taylors."

But first they have to figure that uploading thing.

"We'll have it ready to go next week," she said.