PSA - Sure Thing Labeler

[Candace]

Most people probably aren't using it anymore since you can buy CDRs and use a labeling in the CD burner, but back in the early aughts the Sure Thing CD labeler was a tool that seemed to allow you to easily label your CDs. Well, in the last month or so I've undertaken two projects, one to get all my DATs onto a hard drive and one to rip all my CDs at full resolution to an external drive, both official releases and some of the many shows I burned to CD over the years. The ones that have a Sure Thing label stamped onto the CD are really, really difficult to rip and seem to not play well. So, if anyone still uses that, I'd advise against it and just use a marker to label your CDRs. 

[vanark]

Most people probably aren't using it anymore since you can buy CDRs and use a labeling in the CD burner, but back in the early aughts the Sure Thing CD labeler was a tool that seemed to allow you to easily label your CDs. Well, in the last month or so I've undertaken two projects, one to get all my DATs onto a hard drive and one to rip all my CDs at full resolution to an external drive, both official releases and some of the many shows I burned to CD over the years. The ones that have a Sure Thing label stamped onto the CD are really, really difficult to rip and seem to not play well. So, if anyone still uses that, I'd advise against it and just use a marker to label your CDRs.

I think many of us would only write on the hub. In many trading circles you would only write the disc number on the hub and out a piece of paper in the sleeve. 

[phil_er_up]

Had some CD's that had labels on them that someone sent me and found that different CD players would act differently with those CD's. Had a plexor and 2 CD read/writers on two different PC's. Only one would read the label CD. So what I am getting at Candace is you have different CD players then you could try them. Also found if you have holes on top of the CD through the label then it would have trouble reading those. Can try and cover holes on label with markers and fill in the holes areas on the CD label.

[fanofjam]

Most people probably aren't using it anymore since you can buy CDRs and use a labeling in the CD burner, but back in the early aughts the Sure Thing CD labeler was a tool that seemed to allow you to easily label your CDs. Well, in the last month or so I've undertaken two projects, one to get all my DATs onto a hard drive and one to rip all my CDs at full resolution to an external drive, both official releases and some of the many shows I burned to CD over the years. The ones that have a Sure Thing label stamped onto the CD are really, really difficult to rip and seem to not play well. So, if anyone still uses that, I'd advise against it and just use a marker to label your CDRs.

Other than the ones with the labels, have you had any issues copying the old CDRs?  Have you tried ripping DVDRs? 

Have wondered about that for years with my CDR collection...I have something like 20 or more spindles (some 50 and some 100 CDR spindles) full of burned music that hasn't seen the light of day for at least ten years.  Just like you and now that I'm retired, I was thinking about pulling it from the depths and archiving all of that stuff to hard drive.  I did that with all of my purchased CDs many years ago for the obvious benefit of protecting my music investment, but never got around to doing it for the non-commercial stuff.  Tons of Panic shows, massive amounts of rare Stevie Rays on all of the old formats CDR, cassette, VCR and DVDR.  Fortunately, I transferred all of my DAT tapes to CDR a loooong time ago so I don't have to worry about converting DATs, but still all of those shows that I recorded on DAT would be lost if CDRs don't preserve well. 

Also, I remember that some of those DATs converted with some digi-noise, so it would be nice to run those through IZO RX and finally have clean copies of those shows.  Finally, some of the SRV cassettes I have I think are still pretty rare and uncirculated, but still they're at least a gen or more down from the source tape, so cleaning the tape noise from those and getting them out into circulation would be a dream come true.  I'm not sure if Lee Hopkins is still pimping over SRV fans with his hoarding bullshit, but I'd LOVE to finally circulate some of the stuff he traded me with the promise not to trade.  It's been long enough and I don't care anymore if I screw him over breaking a promise I made 15 or 20 years ago.  LOL