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[Rozard]

Lucky me will be attending both

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[Red Wolf]

I knew I shouldn't have warned people I'd be going. Now everyone is going to dodge me

[Rozard]

Just wear a bag on your head. And add a little flare to it. Everyone will know who you are then.

[Jace Tsunami]

that picture makes me laugh everytime I see it Rozard

[jiggermole]

I have a dvd burner. If someone wants to try putting their amvs on dvd I can do a consumer job of it. No special interactive menus here but I can encode from virtually any format. If you don't want to send me a data cd. I can pull it from a-m-v.org. If a-m-v.org doesn't want me to do this for artist than that is ok.
No garantees. I am very busy. If people really want it, I can do my best to accomodate.
I Have no amvs yet (I really suck) so I figure at least I can do some form of aide to this place.

[Red Wolf]

Time for yet another opinion poll.

Obviously with over 50 CDs on the catalog sending in an entire spindle is tempting to some people. While I too would be tempted with that idea were I a requester it is also a little daunting from a burn workload perspective (I've done it a few times already). I don't want to ban large requests all together but at the same time I don't want to lose too many evenings to the CD burner. So this is my idea to ease the time scale of my work load, to cut off a rash of 50 CD requests before they start, and to still offer the service.

I'm thinking about implementing a CD spindle trade in program. Basically 50 CDs would be assigned to the spindle (probably the first 50 CDs submitted, this would be worked out with the creators later). There would be no deviation or custom jobs performed, what was assigned to the spindle is what you got (you could always request additional CDs later). I would allow two spindle trade ins per month (the request rate is below that currently so that shouldn't be a big problem).

The program would start by me burning and labeling the 50 CDs and shelving that spindle. A requester would submit to me a spindle of 50 CDs, all properly labeled like any other request. The spindle I originally burned would go out to them and I would take my time to re-burn the 50 CDs on their spindle. The next requester would send in the same thing and receive the first requester's spindle of CDs and the process would continue on like that.

People would need to email me for a reservation and one would be granted every two weeks (barring backlog due to personal reasons). This should give me plenty of time to re-burn a spindle of CDs without any pressure and the requester would receive their 50 CDs in a matter of days rather than weeks.

The down side is you are a dependent on the person before you having decent handwriting and CDs (there would be restrictions on what types of CDs would be acceptable to make sure everything is quality). The up side is the service will remain available, free, and would have a fast turn around.

That's my idea in a nutshell. Again which CDs would be assigned to the spindle will be decided between myself and the creators should I decide to go ahead with this idea. Please let me know your thoughts, especially if you would have a problem swapping out CDs or not, and if you think I missed any possible problems with this arrangement. Thanks.

[Jace Tsunami]

hmm... this all sounds like an EXCELLENT idea, but I dont know about the labeling thing.

maybe you should just buy some sticker labels instead, and have a sheet prepared on your computer with 50 diffrent labels that you can just pop in a new sheet of stickers at any time with.

It wouldn't be too much work to slap on a sticker to a blank cd, and at the same time everything would be ledgable.

[Red Wolf]

I did sticker labels for some CDs I handed out at AWA last year. I didn't hear any complaints but I know they actually off balanced the drive in my system enough that I got some noticable vibrations. A full CD label wouldn't do this but those take just as much time to apply properly as writing with a sharpie and are a good deal most costly.

[Jace Tsunami]

just put REALLY TINY stickers, like return address labels on them.

you don't even have to completley label the CD. Just put a code on the stickers, then print out on one piece of paper a table of contents

Like, Label A5 = Koopiskeva

something liek that.

[iserlohn]

You can't put really tiny stickers on CDs, it throws off the balance when they're spinning. At least that's what my old CD-R drive manual used to say...