27 Mar
2008
27 Mar
'08
6:38 p.m.
I'm getting to point where I need to burn a bunch of my new audio CD.
Does anyone happen to have an application which will run 2 or 3 burners
at the same time? I'd just have to pull a burner from a 2nd computer and
install in my tower and cut my twiddle-my-thumbs time in half ... well,
that's the theory.
Right now I'm using k3b, and it works flawless for everything I throw at
it. But, I don't think it supports multiple burners.
And while on the subject ... are the ink jet CD printers worth getting
just to do a 50 or 100 discs or should I just stick with the tried and
true sticky labels I normally print on my laser? I really do hate
inkjets, if for no other reason than the high cost of ink!
Thanks.
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EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca
WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca
27 Mar
27 Mar
7:02 p.m.
Keep an eye out for refurbs, like closeouts at the epson store. It
was awhile ago, but I paid around $79 for CD printers, which includes
the ink. Places like Allmedia outlet sell replacement ink for pretty
cheap. DON'T put labels on CDs!!!!!
Bob van der Poel wrote:
I'm getting to point where I need to burn a bunch
of my new audio CD.
Does anyone happen to have an application which will run 2 or 3 burners
at the same time? I'd just have to pull a burner from a 2nd computer and
install in my tower and cut my twiddle-my-thumbs time in half ... well,
that's the theory.
Right now I'm using k3b, and it works flawless for everything I throw at
it. But, I don't think it supports multiple burners.
And while on the subject ... are the ink jet CD printers worth getting
just to do a 50 or 100 discs or should I just stick with the tried and
true sticky labels I normally print on my laser? I really do hate
inkjets, if for no other reason than the high cost of ink!
Thanks.
7:32 p.m.
On Thursday 27 March 2008 17:38, Bob van der Poel wrote:
And while on the subject ... are the ink jet CD
printers worth
getting just to do a 50 or 100 discs or should I just stick with
the tried and true sticky labels I normally print on my laser? I
Inkjet-printed CDs may not look as slick as silkscreened ones, but
they're way, way less tacky than labels (which eventually bubble or
worse, come off inside someone's player and ruin it, as once happened
to one of my drives.) The Epson RX580 is starting to show up cheap
(like $60) as a refurb, and as long as you have a really up to date
Linux/cups/gutenprint/whatever it is that makes "Epson RX580" show up
in my printer list on Kubuntu 7.10, you should be able to print CDs
on it without much trouble.
One caveat about the RX580 is that the scanner part of it won't be
recognized unless you install some binary blob from an
Epson-affiliated website, and the binary blob is 32-bit only.
Rob
7:36 p.m.
On 27 March 2008 at 14:38, Bob van der Poel <bob(a)mellowood.ca> wrote:
And while on the subject ... are the ink jet CD
printers worth getting
just to do a 50 or 100 discs or should I just stick with the tried and
true sticky labels I normally print on my laser? I really do hate
inkjets, if for no other reason than the high cost of ink!
I know of at least 4 people, myself included, that have had music CDs
with sticky labels get stuck inside car CD players. The label makes
the discs too thick to come back out of the slot. Just a word of
caution...
--
Kevin
7:54 p.m.
Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
On 27 March 2008 at 14:38, Bob van der Poel
<bob(a)mellowood.ca> wrote:
What Kevin said. It's a different game dropping a poorly labeled disc
onto a drive's tray or even moreso into a top-loading drive than
slipping one into a front-loader. Some schools of engineering study the
latter as efficient means of REMOVING labels!
Frank
And while on the subject ... are the ink jet CD
printers worth getting
just to do a 50 or 100 discs or should I just stick with the tried and
true sticky labels I normally print on my laser? I really do hate
inkjets, if for no other reason than the high cost of ink!
I know of at least 4 people, myself included, that have had music CDs
with sticky labels get stuck inside car CD players. The label makes
the discs too thick to come back out of the slot. Just a word of
caution...
--
Kevin
7:58 p.m.
Okay, okay, okay ... I get the message. No stickly labels for this
project!!!
Honestly, I've never had the problem, but I have heard of others having
a gooey mess ... so I guess I really should be kind! Darn, now a new
printer. This is all eating into the millions of dollars I was expecting
to make from this project :)
Now, multiple burners ???
--
Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca
WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca
8:06 p.m.
On 27 March 2008 at 15:58, Bob van der Poel <bob(a)mellowood.ca> wrote:
Honestly, I've never had the problem, but I have
heard of others having
a gooey mess ... so I guess I really should be kind! Darn, now a new
printer. This is all eating into the millions of dollars I was expecting
to make from this project :)
Do you have any place like a Kinko's near you? I think some of those
places will print on CDs for you.
Now, multiple burners ???
Yes, please! I want to know too. I wonder if running Xen with
multiple copies of the OS and a k3b running in each of those with
one burner on each one would work? But, I'm clueless here.
Sorry...
--
Kevin
8:21 p.m.
Am Freitag, 28. März 2008 schrieb Kevin Cosgrove:
On 27 March 2008 at 15:58, Bob van der Poel
<bob(a)mellowood.ca> wrote:
I don't know about the simultaneous part (I doubt that this works on linux,
does it even work on win?).
But it should be fairly easy to run multiple instances on k3b/cdrecord/cdrdao
at parallel accessing different writers. Only limit should be the bus system
the writer cling to (provided the 700MB of the audio-data are cached in ram
or placed in a tmpfs for faster read, more than 700MB of ram would be
needed).
Arnold
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Now, multiple burners ???
Yes, please! I
want to know too. I wonder if running Xen with
multiple copies of the OS and a k3b running in each of those with
one burner on each one would work? But, I'm clueless here. 
28 Mar
28 Mar
9:30 a.m.
Arnold:
Am Freitag, 28. März 2008 schrieb Kevin Cosgrove:
Mulitple burners are no problem, the only problem is to keep track of
disc A, disc B, ... if you want to do 30 each of them.
This is what I did for my choir.
$ ls -l
total 973896
-r--r--r-- 1 karl users 22641472 Mar 29 2005 01_deus_in_adjutorum.wav
...
-r--r--r-- 1 karl users 29461784 Mar 30 2005 1312_sicut_erat_in_principio.wav
-rw-r--r-- 1 karl users 1992 Mar 30 2005 a.toc
-rw-r--r-- 1 karl users 2118 Mar 30 2005 b.toc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 karl users 170 May 14 2005 run
$ cat run
#!/bin/sh
devf=$1
devn=$2
toc=$3
eject -t $devf
cdrdao write -n --driver generic-mmc --device $devn --speed 8 $toc
eject $devf
dtmfdial 1234 # just to get my attention
$
Then I start two xterms and run
for i in `seq 1 30`; do ./run /dev/hdc ATA:1,0,0 a.toc; done
for i in `seq 1 30`; do ./run /dev/scd0 1,4,0 b.toc; done
Hälsningar,
/Karl
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On 27 March 2008 at 15:58, Bob van der Poel
<bob(a)mellowood.ca> wrote:
I don't know about the simultaneous part (I doubt that this works on linux,
does it even work on win?).
But it should be fairly easy to run multiple instances on k3b/cdrecord/cdrdao
at parallel accessing different writers. Only limit should be the bus system
the writer cling to (provided the 700MB of the audio-data are cached in ram
or placed in a tmpfs for faster read, more than 700MB of ram would be
needed).
Arnold Now, multiple burners ???
Yes, please! I
want to know too. I wonder if running Xen with
multiple copies of the OS and a k3b running in each of those with
one burner on each one would work? But, I'm clueless here.
27 Mar
27 Mar
8:36 p.m.
Do you have any place like a Kinko's near you? I
think some of those
places will print on CDs for you.
No Kinko's. But there is a Staples in the next town (about 80 miles) and
I have to go there anyway next Tuesday. I'll pop in and ask before I see
about the printer ... hey, they might even have one on clearance there
:) Just what I need ... more hardware.
--
Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca
WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca
8:56 p.m.
On Thursday 27 March 2008 19:06, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
It's probably great for a short run, but I would bet that Kinko's will
charge way more to print on 100 CDs than the cost of a printer plus
ink plus blank printable CDs.
Rob
now a new
printer. This is all eating into the millions of
dollars I was expecting to make from this project :)
Do you have any place like a Kinko's near you? I think some of
those places will print on CDs for you. 
9:15 p.m.
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:38:58 -0700
Bob van der Poel <bob(a)mellowood.ca> wrote:
I'm getting to point where I need to burn a bunch
of my new audio CD.
Does anyone happen to have an application which will run 2 or 3 burners
at the same time? I'd just have to pull a burner from a 2nd computer and
install in my tower and cut my twiddle-my-thumbs time in half ... well,
that's the theory.
It should certainly be possible to install multiple burners in the same computer and do it
that way. You'd have to figure out how to run two instances of the burning program
and target each at it's own writer.
If you already have a burner in a second PC you could use both PCs at once - you could
transfer the audio files over a network (WiFi or Ethernet etc.) or you could write them
onto a data CD (better error correction) and copy to the other PC that way.
I also remember looking into this a while back and some of the CD duplicating houses
seemed pretty competitive and have the advantage of being able to turn out a professional
looking printed disk. Most of them can cope with variable quanity because they use CD-R
for low volumes and stamped manufacture for high volume.
Regards,
Steve.
11:07 p.m.
wes schreiner wrote:
Bob van der Poel <bob(a)mellowood.ca> wrote:
Looks like this will be just fine. I was thinking I'd write a script for
cdrecord which would be something like (very simple, not tested!!!)
#!/bin/sh
SONGS = song1.wav song2.wav etc
cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom0 $SONGS >status1 &
cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom1 $SONGS > status2 &
but was really hoping that someone had done it already. Besides, I've
had some coasters burned with cdrecord in the distant past.
Thanks.
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Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca
WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca
I'm getting to point where I need to burn a
bunch of my new audio CD.
Does anyone happen to have an application which will run 2 or 3 burners
at the same time?
cdcontrol can do it. 
28 Mar
28 Mar
9:31 a.m.
Bob van der Poel wrote:
And while on the subject ... are the ink jet CD
printers worth getting
just to do a 50 or 100 discs or should I just stick with the tried and
true sticky labels I normally print on my laser? I really do hate
inkjets, if for no other reason than the high cost of ink!
Just remember that sticky labels are notorious for destroying CDs.
--
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