CD label/cover tools?

[unixronin]

Do you frequently burn your own CDs?  Personal mixes, etc?

If so, do you go to the trouble of making CD case bootkelts and CD labels?

If so ... what do you use?

I ask because Nero's label/booklet designer seems to have scores of templates for commercial adhesive CD labels, but doesn't appear to have one single template for printing the front and back of a CD booklet next to each other so that the resulting booklet can just be folded over and slopped in.  I found one CD label-printing tool with a 14-day free trial, that did allow printing a foldable booklet, but, Cthulhu in a merrywidow, teh STUPID, it BURNS.  It's such a wretched, broken-by-design piece of crippleware I can't imagine anyone actually spending money on it.  It can't render transparency in imported images, it can't import track lists from ANYTHING,¹ ... I've rarely seen a more pathetic piece of junk masquerading as commercial software.

[1]  Well, OK, not quite "anything".  It can do a cddb lookup.  That must be really useful for retrieving a track list for your own personal CDs, huh?  What were they THINKING?  Oh, wait:  They weren't, of course.  Silly me.

Comments

[guppiecat]

I burn mp3 CDs. I write on them with a sharpie.

I don't have time to get fancy with it anymore...

but if I did, I'd use Inkscape. It's freaking amazing.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Thank you for reminding me that I need to try out Inkscape.

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

"Output in Color PostScript and PDF formats, with B/W GIF preview"

Has a web interface available. I think the program itself is mostly Linux/Unix oriented but it could be compiled and run on windows with the right tools and libraries.

http://www.aczoom.com/tools/cdinsert/

[bfudlmint.livejournal.com]

This seems like an issue for a word processor/layout software more than specialized software. I don't have Open Office installed but take a look at Origami CD Envelope Template http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates/User/template/index.html