[mplpost] CD Booklets

[Howard Kaplan]

Further to the continuing discussion of putting CD booklets on the CD in 
PDF format:

There are some technical problems here.  Not all computer CD drives can 
read the combined music/data formats, as I know from experience trying to 
read some fairly recent mixed format CD-Rs from MP3.com.  This may change 
as the older drives become replaced over the next few years.

I do not know if all CD mastering software can handle the mixed format, and 
this would be especially important to those people doing very short-run 
products at home.  Even those who want to make a master at home and then 
have, say, 100 run off at a commercial CD-R factory might find that the 
duplication software asks the question "music or data?" and does not accept 
"all of the above" as an answer.

Perhaps what we need is a new format that must be inserted into a CD-RW 
drive on initial use and looks like a data disk with an autorun 
program.  This program would read the .PDF file, send it to the local 
printer exactly once (to avoid any possibility of unauthorized future 
duplication), erase the .PDF file, and reprogram the CD header so that it 
looks like an ordinary audio CD instead, after which it could be played as 
often as required.



Howard L. Kaplan
Songwriter and occasional performer
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Home page: http://www.thrinberry-frog.com
Sheet music (.pdf) and MIDI files: http://songsheets.thrinberry-frog.com



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