It would figure, since I've been the one for weeks now trying to keep people from undertaking just one more project for the wedding, that tonight I should succumb. So While I should be packing, or sleeping, or something I am finishing up more arts & crafts.
Several weeks ago we sent the wedding photographer a CD of music we'd selected. He was gathering photos from many sources to do a video montage for the pre-nup dinner. At the time we thought maybe we should make some more copies. Then we promptly did nothing about it.
Today we decided that we did in fact want these custom CD's as thank you gifts. So we went to the Office Depot on the way to dinner. We just love Office Depot. We picked up a CD label kit and a bunch of jewel boxes. When we got home we ditzed with a label design for a while and got something we liked. Then I started burning CDs.
And then the wheels came off the wagon.
See the label kit says it has 138 labels. What it doesn't say is that only 5 of them are jewel box inserts. Bummer. Well paper will work for that I guess.
(truth be told, the HP Premium Inkjet paper looks better)
Then, well then we discovered that the people at iTunes may in fact be fascists. Did you know that if you buy something from the online store that iTunes will only let you burn 7 copies to CD? Makes it rough when you need 15. Have you poked around your hard drive looking for the mp3s that belong to iTunes? Let me know if you find them. They appear to be encrypted.
Fortunately the folks at Musicmatch aren't so pro-RIAA. I probably lost some fidelity along the way. The route was circuitous and I won't explain it here. Suffice it to say it's done.
I think they came out pretty nice too, labels and jackets. Nice little bonus gift. Here are the selections:
5 comments:
yay for craft projects! and that is one sappy love song mix... perfect for a wedding photo montage.
FYI, if you had rearranged the playlist, you could have burned the other seven copies. Its seven copies of the song on the same playlist, and its not like the receivers of the gifts would have ever known the difference.
Go Katy! That's how I do it.
Also? "Every Breath You Take"? You know that's a song about Sting stalking his ex-wife, right?
stevie.
don't knock the stalking song... maybe that is David's plan for Marisa... seduce, marry, divorce, stalk, write a song.
Yes, that would be SO David... : )
You can get around the iTunes copy protection by burning the files to an audio cd, then ripping the CD to MP3 (or AAC or Apple Lossless Encoder). Unless Apple closed that door...
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