I rather confused things by mentioning the Lightscribe thing. That's something that isn't anything to do with the project I was describing. I bought myself the lightscribe burner when I had a CD stuck in my drive (a folk CDR, as it happens!) and urgently needed to save some files for day-job work. I only use it for making one-off CDs or demos: I don't think it's worth the time and effort in trying to home-burn more than 50 CDRs.

but I do think Lightscribe technology is a very interesting development. For those that don't know, you can burn audio or data to them just like a normal CD; but it also 'prints' onto the body of the CD by burning with a laser. So no ink. No labels. And I think it looks smarter than a conventional label. (Part of me also quite likes the fact that it's an "engraving" of sorts, albeit with a laser: shades of William Blake.)