CD and DVD printing software DVD Print makes it quite easy to create compelling CD and DVD covers. This can come in handy when downloading (free) music or movies from the Internet that come with covers. It can also be interesting for users who backup their CD and DVD collection and want to add a [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you backup CDs or DVDs of movies, games or applications regularly you might also want to attach the right cover to it so that it becomes easier to recognize the contents of the backup without having to look at the actual media. Some DVD burning software programs come with so called cover designers that [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

An autoloader is a device that aids the user by loading and unloading CDs and DVDs automatically which is beneficial if he has to burn multiple disks. QQhandy is a plugin for Nero that adds support for DupliQ and MiniCubis autoloaders and supports the autoloading of five disks without registration and unlimited disks with (free) [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I discovered a nice website running a script that can create a CD, and DVD, paper case for you. The most basic version of the CD paper case requires an artist, an title and tracks to be entered before the paper case will be created as an Adobe PDF document that can be printed later [...]

Categories: Cool, Online Services

I’m sometimes astonished as to what people sell at eBay. I always thought those video game collections that filled rooms where impressive but this music collection must be one of the largest sales ever on eBay. A collector is apparently selling his entire music collection on eBay which consists of more than 3 million records and 300000 CDs currently stored in a 16,000 square foot climate controlled warehouse.

Categories: Cool, Entertainment, The Web

When you right-click a CD, DVD or removable drive and select Properties from the menu you find a Autoplay tab there that displays applications for certain media that are put into the drive. An action like playing or opening can be selected or that the user will be prompted every time a media of that type is inserted.

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows

Ars Technica are reporting that CD sales this Christmas, that is the period between Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve, are down 20% compared to last year which means that 21.4 million CDs have been sold less than the previous year. This looks serious but is it ? We have to take a look at overall earnings to make a fair judgment.

Categories: Music Industry

That is at least what Jennifer Pariser, the head of litigation for Sony BMG, said when questioned in court about her music piracy understanding. I think that this is one of the main reasons why the Music Industry is doing so badly. Their view collides with the demand of the consumers.

Categories: Music Industry

The competition between Blue-Ray and HD-DVD seems to be ridiculous and pointless when you compare it with the plans of Mempile company. After achieving the maximum of 2 or 4 layers on present-day discs, they’re coming with a 200-layer medium called TeraDisc™. It’s those 200 virtual layers in a DVD-size medium (1,2 mm thick) that allow such a huge amount of data to be stored 3-dimensionally on a single disc. The medium contains light sensitive molecules (chromophores) capable of switching between two states thus saving digital data.

Categories: Hardware