09-24-2013, 01:56 PM
Ron, mp3 is a compressed format. Burning an MP3 to form a true audio CD is actually decompressing the mp3. The problem you're having is almost certainly that you're trying to burn three 30 minute tracks to an 80 minute CD. You have to pick two of the three and use those. Or just one.
We currently do not offer CDs because there are a large number of issues we would face in doing so, which would pile even more work on top of us. Even in selling mp3's only, we are swamped and it's only getting worse.
When I started out, I was only selling CDs. I started off taking the orders, burning the CDs, printing them, packaging them, shipping them, and doing everything else.
Professionally distributing CDs is a major deal, and that didn't work for very long, so we tried to go through a distributor who would publish on demand for us. That turned into a nightmare when they stopped delivering orders in a sane amount of time, and then we were left to deal with the fallout.
To publish a CD in a professional way, we have to have the audio. We have to create a Master disc set. We have to duplicate or replicate it. We have to Print them. We have to package them. We have to design and print and insert the case inserts. We have to package them with shrink wrap, and then again for shipping. And we have to have the shipping supplies (envelopes, labels, postage scale, postage meter), CD blanks, CD printer, inks for the CD printer, the duplication/replication machines (which are very expensive). And we have to have someone actually running all this equipment. That's if we did it in house, and the cost just to get started would be in excess of $15,000.
If we send the work out to a POD place, we still have to create the Master disc set, and design the case inserts, and set up the package for the POD guys to run when an order comes in. I don't have an ounce of creative design skills, and Andrew has other things he needs to be doing. Our other stupport staff are already busy with their current jobs, and on top of that, we have never found a company that would do all that reliably except for maybe Amazon.
In the end, it is a logistics nightmare and even moreso because optical media usage is dying quickly. Spending all that time to make CDs doesn't make sense because less and less people are using CDs. Instead, people are now overwhelmingly using MP3 players, USB sticks and iPods.
So, offering CDs is not a realistic option for a while at least, and we expect that by the time it is something we have time for, it won't be reasonable because the market for CD based purchases will have collapsed.
We currently do not offer CDs because there are a large number of issues we would face in doing so, which would pile even more work on top of us. Even in selling mp3's only, we are swamped and it's only getting worse.
When I started out, I was only selling CDs. I started off taking the orders, burning the CDs, printing them, packaging them, shipping them, and doing everything else.
Professionally distributing CDs is a major deal, and that didn't work for very long, so we tried to go through a distributor who would publish on demand for us. That turned into a nightmare when they stopped delivering orders in a sane amount of time, and then we were left to deal with the fallout.
To publish a CD in a professional way, we have to have the audio. We have to create a Master disc set. We have to duplicate or replicate it. We have to Print them. We have to package them. We have to design and print and insert the case inserts. We have to package them with shrink wrap, and then again for shipping. And we have to have the shipping supplies (envelopes, labels, postage scale, postage meter), CD blanks, CD printer, inks for the CD printer, the duplication/replication machines (which are very expensive). And we have to have someone actually running all this equipment. That's if we did it in house, and the cost just to get started would be in excess of $15,000.
If we send the work out to a POD place, we still have to create the Master disc set, and design the case inserts, and set up the package for the POD guys to run when an order comes in. I don't have an ounce of creative design skills, and Andrew has other things he needs to be doing. Our other stupport staff are already busy with their current jobs, and on top of that, we have never found a company that would do all that reliably except for maybe Amazon.
In the end, it is a logistics nightmare and even moreso because optical media usage is dying quickly. Spending all that time to make CDs doesn't make sense because less and less people are using CDs. Instead, people are now overwhelmingly using MP3 players, USB sticks and iPods.
So, offering CDs is not a realistic option for a while at least, and we expect that by the time it is something we have time for, it won't be reasonable because the market for CD based purchases will have collapsed.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
