The Forum CD Project is ON!

[steverok]

You can make a very professional-looking CD for about $5 apiece, using Neato glossy CD insert paper, and a color printer. That's what I do, but I usually only make about 50 - any more than that would be too much of a burden for anybody. The jacket is a fold-out booklet, but there are really only four pages total - cover, inner sleeve, and two pages on the opposite side of the paper - i.e., no staples. Depending on the number required, that could be a fine way to go.

[alanz]

Who has the artwork for this?

[ram]

I was thinking cdbaby as in download the cd and art for the cover… kinda like the Janglemen did with their first CD (RRF>Rickenbacker Artists>the Janglemen are here!)

[alanz]

CDBaby for a fee will upload songs to the various on-line music stores and then take a cut of the sales. That works if people want to pay for mp3s. I'm offering up a free option.

[ram]

Alan I understand that; and my cdbaby comment was meant to be more of a tongue and cheek utterance. Let us not forget the original intent for this project was to get something together better than our standard download mp3 sound. I would venture to think that more than half the folks on the CD have their stuff on the internet available for low bit listening or download. As Peter said let's wait to hear what Gary has to say.

[sloop_john_b]

I was thinking cdbaby as in download the cd and art for the cover… kinda like the Janglemen did with their first CD (RRF>Rickenbacker Artists>the Janglemen are here!)

Yup, digital-only release was basically hassle-free.

Making a torrent available for forum download is a great option.

[alanz]

Look, I find this entire thread quite amusing in a schadenfreude sort of way. It matters not to me one way or the other - I don't have a horse in this race in the sense that I didn't contribute anything, I'm simply volunteering to DO SOMETHING. Bittorrent is THE way to go if you want to hear what everyone did in a fast and convenient way. If some of you are too "discerning" for 256 Kbps mp3 sound, well, that's fine. You can keep waiting for the professional ultra-mega-awesome RickResource Forum Compilation CD of Boom Shakalaka.

Otherwise, to solve a problem and make some headway there are other methods, some of which involve absolutely no cost whatsoever and one of which I am willing to spearhead. There's no need to wait for Gary or anyone else, really, unless Gary is the only one with the artwork, in which case we can even proceed without that, too. He can still proceed with a professional package and get those out to the people that want them.

Ah, but maybe no one will buy a professional CD if we do the bittorrent thing instead.... Hmmm... now that sounds like something a record company executive would say...

[manta]

Hi Guys,

Alan's offer sounds the fastest and cheapest.

CD Baby just sells albums already on barcoded CD and downloads, it doesn't produce them. It would be a company you send the CD to for sales after its made, which sound pretty impractical since there would be numerous artists to split a little bit o' money.

Discmakers also does runs of 100 with CD case and art for around $200 plus some shipping. It has online uploads and templates. It delivers UPS to the 48 states in about a week after it gets the songs and art.

http://duplication.discmakers.com/mcm/d ... /index.jsp

Click on Shirt Run Discs

These are fast and cheap.

If you want probably better quality, I guess we wait until that happens.

Best,

Manta

[admin]

Alan: The reason I believe we should wait for Gary is that he has been on the case from the beginning. Should he be unable to finish the project then by all means a reasonable alternative is fair. I am hoping that Gary will give us some feedback at this point.

[manta]

Hi,

That should be click on "short run discs" not "shirt run discs".

M

[myfretless]

I appreciate Alan for having the desire to do something. Thank you Alan for offering. That is very nice.

I also appreciate Tony and Gary for having done what they have done to date. I still think it would be fun to hear what everyone did.

As for me, my contribution was from my either my penultimate, or third CD back, I no longer remember. Did this start in 05 or 06?

I write/record/produce a CD every year. I have for the last 4 years. Does anyone have any economic ideas which I could use to put out a run of say 40 or 50 CDs? How much would that run me? I usually just burn a couple copies off my computer and hand them out. But they look amateurish (I use a sharpie to write the track names etc. on a blank CD). No cracks about them sounding amateurish - I'm sure they are. LOL

[alanz]

manta's link is pretty good. You can get 50 CDs for about $200 with shipping but only to the continental US. So that's $4.00 each. So yeah, that works. The regular diskmakers.com service needs at least 300 and the price up to 1499 is almost $1300. In other words 300 to 1499 is $1279 plus shipping apparently, if I read the estimate correctly. So it gets progressively cheaper per unit the more you run, as you'd expect, from about $4.00 to under $1.25. But that's a fairly large amount of $ for something like this.

So with money in hand someone could sign up, fire off an order of 50 or 60, get the shipment in a week or so and then ship one out to everyone who sent in $.

[rikk]

email sent

[tony_carey]

I am trying to find out what is going on & wont act untill I have spoken to Peter & Gary, if I can get hold of him. I have a master CD with me. As far as artwork goes, then as things stand, unless Gary knows otherwise, there isn't any....this could be the problem. I also have used a standard inkjet printer with super results. The only problem is that unless you go into multi page printing, that you can't get much info on the sleeve. However, the time is coming that detailed info is of secondry importance.

I will contact Peter with my suggestion & then post again.

Meanwhile....is there anyone in the US who might be willing to print a single CD slip (front & back) & organise the duplication of the CD's. It would just be easy if I sent artwork in word format, to size, that could be printed front & back, trimmed to size & inserted into a slimline CD case.

[jps]

Do we know how many CDs are wanted/needed at this time?