Ojai Sam
Staff member
Now that I am trading on MusicBoomerang again, occasionally I receive a CD with no bart or fart. Being obsessive, I can't stand to file an album without a label on the spine. The eponymous Ace of Cups album (great stuff! I'll post it later) came to me as a promo without back art but is definitely a keeper. So after many years, I find myself back in the label-printing business.
Happily, AudioLabel, my long time favorite standalone program, is still in business. Not only does it have tons of templates to simplify the layout, it even reads a CD and searches freedb for album and track information. This was cutting edge stuff in the 90's.
The program also lets you import image files. Thanks to Discogs, cover art is usually easy to find. But the album in question is pretty rare so all I could find was the Japanese back art without spine labels. Fortunately, I still had on hand a few Staples CD jewel case labels, so after a bit of tweaking, I came up with this:
So far, so good.
This went so well that I decided to stock up on blank labels. But I soon learned that Staples and Avery no longer sell standard CD jewel case inserts.
Amazon has them, however. Uline does too.
The moral of the story is that you can still work with an obsolescent format like the CD, but it takes more work than it did back in its heyday.
Happily, AudioLabel, my long time favorite standalone program, is still in business. Not only does it have tons of templates to simplify the layout, it even reads a CD and searches freedb for album and track information. This was cutting edge stuff in the 90's.
The program also lets you import image files. Thanks to Discogs, cover art is usually easy to find. But the album in question is pretty rare so all I could find was the Japanese back art without spine labels. Fortunately, I still had on hand a few Staples CD jewel case labels, so after a bit of tweaking, I came up with this:
So far, so good.
This went so well that I decided to stock up on blank labels. But I soon learned that Staples and Avery no longer sell standard CD jewel case inserts.
Amazon has them, however. Uline does too.
The moral of the story is that you can still work with an obsolescent format like the CD, but it takes more work than it did back in its heyday.
