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.
I am linking through lemmy.world because SDF isn’t doing all too well.
there is very little support for lemmy at sdf. one of the nodes has had a
hardware failure and will need to be replaced. the nodes are also in need
of new fans and larger disks, but that requires support.
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.
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.
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.
It was pretty neat but if you kept the CDs in your car they basically fell apart.
It’s called cdimage
And it worked for me: https://lemmy.world/post/30813500
I am linking through lemmy.world because SDF isn’t doing all too well.
I think the one i used was named different? Maybe i’ll try again, thanks!
You know what would be magic? If you could boot Linux from that. Should theoretically be possible, no?
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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.
Those need special blank cd’s
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