First Disc Is Away

The first mix disc went out with today's post. Still waiting on an address from Steve, but in all 10 discs were distributed. I bout must've changed the playlist everyday for the past two weeks before I finally said to hell with it and went to the post office. Here's what I found in putting the first disc together: As far as supplies go I found that Staples had the best prices

• a spindle of 50/100 cds will run you about $9-$15


• slim jewel cases run about $.50 each (paper sleeves are much cheaper)


• a pack of 12 bubble mailers is $7.50 or $1 individually -a pack of cd labels and labelling software runs about $15 (I didn't use them, but probably will in the future)


• cost of mailing each cd was $1.60

All told I spent around $35 and it should be less next time with about 90 discs left on my spindle.

There are now twelve people in the group. Mike Jessen and Andrew Aragon have both recently entered our ranks. The Bloomington group should have it the easiest with mailing costs so long as they can hand deliver a few of the discs.

Here's a bit of advice:

• Use burning software that allows you to normalize the volume levels of the songs. This helped out tremendously with some mp3s on my mix that had widely different volume levels. There only ended up being one song that was much louder than the rest.


• Burn a trial copy and listen to it. I made one copy and listened to it in my car before burning all 11 copies. This was awesome because the first copy that I made was jacked up due to an mp3 used from a bad cd rip as well as an old mp3 that had the end of the song cut off.

That's all for now. Enjoy!