[78-L] CDs with paper labels

Aaron Hunter ahunter01 at comcast.net.invalid
Thu Feb 5 14:18:14 PST 2015


My problem with paper labels was warpage in players that would heat the 
CD during play.  They worked fine in the cheap battery driven players.

Aaron Hunter
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> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 23:27:57 -0000
> From: John Wright <vintage at jabw.demon.co.uk.invalid>
> Subject: [78-L] CDs with paper labels
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> Yesterday Rodger Holtin wrote: "a few weeks ago it was noted here that any
> CD with a paper label more than ten years old is probably toast.  I checked
> mine, and sure enough, all toast.  These were some I bought from the school,
> lectures etc.  Our school library duped all their cassettes to CDs with
> paper labels and tossed the cassettes".
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> Well, right now (in UK) I'm listening to, and regularly play, CDs that I
> assembled in 2003-2004, and stuck on paper labels. Ambrose and Ray Noble
> recordings from the tony projects, and programmes I recorded from BBC radio
> (in those days they still broadcast pre-1940s music). These CDs still play
> on the hi-fi CD player (2009), in the car (2009 model Audi) and on my PC and
> laptop (2011 Dell).
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>
> John
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