You know, Maybe it doesn't take a lot to amuse me sometimes, but I am
really getting off on being able to give my folks disks that are
already labeled and marked, even if simply with what I can do with
lightscribe.
The fancy stuff will require sighted help ofcourse, but just being
able to put a title and date, and such without having to go get them
a pen and read my braille to them, just hand a disk over jus that
little bit of independence is a big charge for me.
It's worth the little extra even if I don't have to do it to have
that equality.
It's kind of tricky because I have to count characters so I don't
overlap, with this simple lightscribe labeler app, there are two edit
boxes, and you can put around 50 characters in each, or 60/40 or
70/30 I think it works that way, but what I usually do is just use
one box and make sure I don't exceed 100 characters.
Furthermore, there's automatic text that's generated that says, put
your top text here, or put your bottom text here, and if you tab back
to look at what you put in the box, that message gets put in there,
and it can mess up your label.
so what I do is to get my text all ready in note-pad, count up my
characters, and put it on the clipboard, then use space and
back-spacde to clear the auto-generated tutor message that appears in
each box, and then paste my text in there, and then tab right on
through and not go back and look at what I put in there.
that sems to work every time, because I seem to be hitting 100
percent with good labels finally.
Just a small thing, but little things matter sometimes.
I also like to give my clients their back-ups and so they're
responsible for them, I keep some stuff, but we have limited storage
space around here and it could get nuts if we keep being busy like
we're geting.
So giving a dated and labeled cd or dvd though it's a little more
work on my part, helps the client out.
I'm using these junky tss corp samsungs to do the lightscribe work so
my good burners don't get worn out, and it just so happens that the
wonderful guy who gifted me with three burners including the bluray
ended up being an lg bluray and two lite-on drives, which will do go
down to 8x, and those seem to be really good drives.
I'm goin to be checking out some of the newer plextor more expensive
drives, anyone know about them, do they still do varirec, and will
they go down to 4x?
You know, it's really wild, this bluray burner will do audio cds too,
but it only goes down to 24x, of course, it's purpose osn't to burn
audio cds, but imagine that, they are now making drives which won't
go down below 24x doing audio cds?
But those seem to play in everything I have around here, and do a
better job than those junky samsungs do,
but those 8x burned lg and lite-ons seek better and I just know in my
intuitive cd burning heart they'll do better in those ancient but
good players that we still have to deal with sometimes.
I've been busy transfering backing tracks from cassette to cds for a
client before the tapes all rot.
So far, that's going well.
It's probably overkill, but I'm recording at 88.2 24 bit, and doing
all my processing, and then dithering and resampling down to cd spec.
but they sound pretty nice for coming off old junky cassettes.
and some of this stuff is out of print,
and one of the tapes I barely got to play, but I got one good pass
out of it and that's all you need.
I just need that 4 grand tool from who was it that made that thing capstan?
But there's nothing you can do about that grainy fluttery thing that
happens when tape is rotten.
But I think we got most of these just in time, they're all useable
still and they sure won't degrade anymore.
Well, hope everyone had a productive day, it's off to bed for this old boy.
I've got a marathon recording session tomorrow afternoon, Terry wants
to come in and try and do 3 songs to finish up his album, he's the
one doing the commemorative album of classic stuff for his wife and
in posterity for his daughter's wedding and such.
He's a really nice cat.
And my price's aren't that high anyway, but he's allowed plenty for
mixing time, and doing all the nice touches, auto-tune with
automation to get the best out of it,
he's gonna have a nice little project.
I think we're cutting North to Alaska, do you hear what I hear, and
Somewhere over the rainbow tomorrow 'grin'.
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