• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    33 minutes ago

    There was also a software to burn pictures in the disc via the burn patterns. There’s a open source project now but it didn’t work for me.

    Edit: i don’t mean the label side but the data side. But has similiar problems with supported players.

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      36 minutes ago

      I had one of those “LightScribe” burners. I think I only used it a couple of times because the media was much more expensive than standard CD-R and I didn’t care enough to get good at it. It was just a slow extra step when I’m trying to burn a quick cd before I head to the bus stop in the morning.

      Funnily, burning the lightscribe cd was faster than the first mp3 player I had. My first mp3 player was a Creative something or other with 32mb of storage. Adding the ~15 songs you could fit on it took fucking donkey’s years.

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      The first laptop I bought had a DVD burner which came with support for LightScribe, which required discs with a special coating. You designed a cover, put the disc in your drive upside down and it would burn the image into the disc. You could only do grayscale as far as I know, but I still thought it was pretty neat at the time.