W-O, "mp3.com logo for a CD label"

What, they won't put your artwork on the cover? Did you mean there's an mp3 logo along with your artwork? Have you got a link to an actual example of what you mean that I can look at? Above you stated,

"You upload your mp3's, cover art, and a two-page inside "booklet" spread

"-there is no mastering of the CD."

So, you should master your own work before you send it? Will the mastered work be hacked up and messed with? Can't you simply send them a cd that's already mastered?

Forgive me, I'm new to this concept and my latest attempt to produce my own cd at home is still a learning curve that I'm trying to master. I've found that the process of creating cds on my computer can produce less than desirable results. Some of them acquire errors in the process of burning that make them unable to play well. Burning them at slower speeds or 'realtime' is suppose to be a cure for this but that process requires one to spend long hours of waiting for each cd to be burned at the actual speed of play. Jeez, you'd think some genius would figure that out and make this process both easy and reliable for the consumer.

I did see a new product at the computer store the other day. It's called the Bravo Disc Publisher by PRIMERA. They were pretty expensive. In the $1500. price range, $2000. if you want it to do both DVD-Rs and CD-Rs. It's a dedicated burner for discs. It says, according to the flyer, that it'll connect to any Windows PC. It has a robotic disc tranport that loads one disc at a time, up to 25, into the machine. It burns at 48x for CD-R recording and prints the labels with a 2400 dpi color printer. Unfortunately no one there at the store knew a thing about it other than the flyer that it came with so I can only quote what it says.

Let's see, $1500. divided by $15. per CD means I'd have to sell 100 to make back my intial investment. Then of course there's the cost of ink and additional packaging like boxes and inserts. I don't know. It might be a great idea. Maybe that's what those mp3 guys are using. Any clue as to whether they just burn CD-Rs like I'm doing at home here or do they have some other process?

Questions, questions. ghost