I need to burn 250 CDs

[Fraggable]

My brother is getting married on Dec. 15th and he asked me to burn CDs of the music that will be at his wedding. He is a composer so he wrote the music in Sibelius and used his University's recording equipment to 'record' the music using prerecorded instruments and then emailed me the MP3's. I don't know why I wrote that because no one cares.

Anyway, I decided on LightScribe CDs since labeling looks cheap and ink is expensive. I have nearly finished burning the labels into all 250 CDs. I did this using 2 LS DVD burners and using 2 Windows logins to run 2 copies of the SureThing labeling application. Each label took 15 mins to burn.

Now I need to record the music to the CDs. I can use WMP and it works great, but I can only do 1 at a time. I have 4 CD burners in there and would really like to use them all at once or at least 2 of them. Is there some software out there that can do this?

All 4 drives are on the ATA interface, my hard drives are SATA.

 

[nakedfrog]

Disc Juggler?

 

[Al Neri]

Match + Gasoline?

 

[thirdeye]

I believe Nero allows writing to multiple drives at once.

 

[ViviTheMage]

this is kind of off your topic, but I have 2 NEC lightscribe DVD burners....and those can BURN an image onto the CD???

 

[PHiuR]

do you have multiple computers?

 

[her209]

Kinkos?

 

[JLGatsby]

Windows Media Player has built in burner software.

 

[Fraggable]

Originally posted by: PHiuR
do you have multiple computers?

I have a desktop with 2 burners and a laptop with one but I don't want to use the laptop.

And Mage, yes Lightscribe burners can burn images to the surface of a LightScribe disc. Go to lightscribe.com

 

[Baked]

Nero allows multiple simultaneous burns.

 

[mcvickj]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
this is kind of off your topic, but I have 2 NEC lightscribe DVD burners....and those can BURN an image onto the CD???

Sounds about right.

"The purpose of LightScribe is to allow users to create direct-to-disc labels (as opposed to stick-on labels), using their optical disc writer. Special discs and a compatible disc writer are required. After burning data to the read-side of the disc, the user simply turns the media over and inserts it with the label side down. The drive's laser then etches into the label side in such a way that an image is produced (see below)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightscribe

 

[Fraggable]

Originally posted by: thirdeye
I believe Nero allows writing to multiple drives at once.

I have Nero but I can't find a way to do it.

 

[oCxTiTaN]

Thus the trademarked name of Lightscribe...a technology of burning labels onto the reverse side of a cd...

 

[thirdeye]

Originally posted by: Fraggable

Originally posted by: thirdeye
I believe Nero allows writing to multiple drives at once.

I have Nero but I can't find a way to do it.

There's an option on the final dialog box before you click burn to "Use Multiple Recorders"

Have you tried that?

 

[Fraggable]

Originally posted by: thirdeye

Originally posted by: Fraggable

Originally posted by: thirdeye
I believe Nero allows writing to multiple drives at once.

I have Nero but I can't find a way to do it.

There's an option on the final dialog box before you click burn to "Use Multiple Recorders"

Have you tried that?

I can't find it. Could you post a screenshot or something?

I'm using Nero 6.6.0.19

EDIT: I found in the help file that that option is only available in the retail version. Mine came with the burners so I guess it's not retail.

 

[Fraggable]

well Nero is letting me run multiple sessions so I guess I figured it out. Thanks for the help.

 

[thirdeye]

Ah, well good to see you resolved it anyways.

 

[MScrip]

Originally posted by: Fraggable

Each label took 15 mins to burn.

15 minutes each? Yikes! If you ever need to make that many copies of a CD, I'd suggest an inkjet printer for labeling. Using inkjet printable CDs, a capable printer such as the Epson R200 prints on the disks in about a minute each.

Inkjet Discs

I sell 50-60 DVDs every couple months, and the inkjet DVDs look great. I burn them one at a time... but my next purchase will be a DVD duplicating tower!

 

[jm20]

Just 'borrow' a retail version :evil:

http://img139.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nerozx1.jpg

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[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: jm20
Just 'borrow' a retail version :evil:

http://img139.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nerozx1.jpg

:evil:

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[IEC]

Originally posted by: Xyclone

Originally posted by: jm20
Just 'borrow' a retail version :evil:

http://img139.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nerozx1.jpg

:evil:

Lawl?

Edit: I'm highlighting jm20's blatant suggestion to commit piracy, and expressing amazement that he would even suggest such a thing openly on a forum...