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rabbitholeday this weekend. Oh, well. I was only going to try to do some cut-up thing anyway.
One thing that bugs me, as someone who has taped a lot of records and is now burning a lot of MP3s onto CD, is that manufacturers of recordable media, or more accurately packagers, don't always provide you with enough space to label it effectively.
A 90-minute cassette tape could generally fit about 11 songs on each side, allowing a little over four minutes for each one. More than that if you're doing early Beatles or the Residents' "Commercial Album". Maxell, as I recall, tended to include a "J-card" with room for twenty songs, ten on each side. The inside of the J-card was wasted on stupid information about the audio characteristics of the tape. So I didn't buy Maxell very much. (For years, in fact, I bought boxes of 10 Sony 100-minute chrome tapes, before they stopped making them.)
Recently I've been buying 15-unit boxes of Sony CD-Rs. They come in a variety of colours, and they have a little tear-off pad of label sheets with plenty of room to write on both sides. While I don't feel compelled to fill CD-Rs to capacity the way I did with tapes, I do try to fill up assorted CDs to the brim, which is often around 20 tracks.
My latest box of CD-Rs only had ten discs; I was at a different store or something. Not only are they not multi-coloured, but their label sheets have room for 14 tracks...on one side. The other side has the warranty in three languages plus little diagrams showing you what you shouldn't do to your CD. Except I already know all this stuff.
Luckily I had some leftover label sheets from some Verbatim data CDs I burned a while ago. Those have plenty of room for 19 tracks.
Of course, the way they package these things often leave you with no way to tell how much space they have for labelling, so it's just trial and error. There should be a wiki somewhere where this kind of information can be REVEALED to the PUBLIC.
rabbitholeday this weekend. Oh, well. I was only going to try to do some cut-up thing anyway.One thing that bugs me, as someone who has taped a lot of records and is now burning a lot of MP3s onto CD, is that manufacturers of recordable media, or more accurately packagers, don't always provide you with enough space to label it effectively.
A 90-minute cassette tape could generally fit about 11 songs on each side, allowing a little over four minutes for each one. More than that if you're doing early Beatles or the Residents' "Commercial Album". Maxell, as I recall, tended to include a "J-card" with room for twenty songs, ten on each side. The inside of the J-card was wasted on stupid information about the audio characteristics of the tape. So I didn't buy Maxell very much. (For years, in fact, I bought boxes of 10 Sony 100-minute chrome tapes, before they stopped making them.)
Recently I've been buying 15-unit boxes of Sony CD-Rs. They come in a variety of colours, and they have a little tear-off pad of label sheets with plenty of room to write on both sides. While I don't feel compelled to fill CD-Rs to capacity the way I did with tapes, I do try to fill up assorted CDs to the brim, which is often around 20 tracks.
My latest box of CD-Rs only had ten discs; I was at a different store or something. Not only are they not multi-coloured, but their label sheets have room for 14 tracks...on one side. The other side has the warranty in three languages plus little diagrams showing you what you shouldn't do to your CD. Except I already know all this stuff.
Luckily I had some leftover label sheets from some Verbatim data CDs I burned a while ago. Those have plenty of room for 19 tracks.
Of course, the way they package these things often leave you with no way to tell how much space they have for labelling, so it's just trial and error. There should be a wiki somewhere where this kind of information can be REVEALED to the PUBLIC.
