Posts Tagged ‘Helpful HInts’
Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
When the CD information or CD text is displayed on a computer, the information is coming from an online database. The database is usually Gracenote (the more common) or AllMusic.
The Gracenote database serves CD information to: Apple Music, WinAmp, Quintessential Media Player, and Finder (Mac OS). The AllMusic database serves CD information to: Windows Media Player, Rhapsody, and Real Music Player.
Registration on these databases must be completed by you for CD information/text to display.
You can find further information on how to submit your CD on the below links.
Gracenote Database
AllMusic Database
Tags: advice, cd text, gracenote, Helpful HInts, Technical, technology
Posted in advice, Gracenote | Comments Off on AllMusic and Gracenote Databases: 17th August 2022
Wednesday, August 10th, 2022
We have lots of customers playing at festivals and taking merchandise with them to sell.
Have a look at our Colour Card Wallets as a brilliant option for this; they are very eco-friendly and good size to transport with you.
Most of all they are a lovely low price for you to be able to sell them on at a good price, and still make a tidy profit.
The template for your art is very straight forward and available to download in PDF or Photoshop here:
https://www.duplicationcentre.co.uk/artwork.html
If you need any advice or help just drop me an email:
una@duplicationcentre.co.uk
Tags: advice, artwork, CD Duplication, customers, DVD Duplication, eco friendly, Helpful HInts, selling
Posted in advice, Artwork, general information, Helping You Decide, Make some money, prices, Secrets to selling, Selling Your Music | Comments Off on Live Music: 10th August 2022
Wednesday, July 20th, 2022
I thought would just let you know about the extremely low price on our single card wallets.
For the Eco-Friendly Professional Product at an amazing price you should consider these.
For sales at gigs these are nice and robust ( no platic to break) and light to transport around, and for posting out to fans or customers these are lightweight, just needing a large letter stamp…possibly a small letter stamp depending on your envelope!
They are printed in colour on 350 gsm Sustainably Sourced and Fsc Certified silk finish card & you have the option to have these cellobagged for the completely prosessional finish and for sales online.
The template for this is nice and straightforward and you can download it in pdf from our artwork section here:
https://www.duplicationcentre.co.uk/files/artwork/pdf/cardboard_wallet.pdf
It is also available in photoshop in the artwork section.
If you would like to have a sample sent to you just drop me an email with your postal address:
una@duplicationcentre.co.uk
You can get a price on our instant price calculator here:
https://www.duplicationcentre.co.uk/prices.html
An example for you is: CD, Colour print on body packed in a colour single card wallet is £1.14 per unit ex vat.
So you can sell these for as low as a few pounds and still make a good return.
Tags: advice, artwork, card wallets, CD Duplication, DVD Duplication, eco friendly, Helpful HInts, printing
Posted in Artwork, Design, Eco-friendly, general information, Make some money, printing, Recycling | Comments Off on Our Card Wallets: 20th July 2022
Tuesday, July 12th, 2022
After a week of refit in the offices we are back in full production.
Please call us or talk to us on live chat if you have any questions about our duplication or replication services.
You can still get instant prices and order online without speaking to us….everything is pretty straightforward….but if you need us we are here to chat.
01702 530354
Tags: advice, CD Duplication, DVD Duplication, help, Helpful HInts
Posted in advice, communication, Customers, general information | Comments Off on Back in Full Production: 11th July 2022
Monday, June 27th, 2022
One of the things we really enjoy when we are processing , printing and packing your orders , is to see the incredible onbody print designs. Here are just a few from the vast array that we have printed.
Tags: artwork, Design Tips, Helpful HInts, printing
Posted in Artwork, general information, Helping You Decide, Interest | Comments Off on Stunning CD Onbody Print: 27th June 2022
Thursday, May 19th, 2022
Apart from our in house duplication services, we also offer CD & DVD replication which we outsource to an amazing company in the Czech Republic.
We have worked with them for nearly 20 years bringing professional high quality replication to our customers.
If you are not sure of the difference between the two processes we have details in our FAQ on this but some of the main differences are: quantities each process excels at, the speed of turnaround, price and most importantly the process used to put your art and content on to the discs.
https://www.duplicationcentre.co.uk/faq.html
Duplication offers fast turnaround (24 hour), digital printing and burning of content from quantities of 1-1000 , whereas replication will only print 500+ quantities and is done using a glass master which stamps the data on to the disc.This takes 10-15 working days.
Brexit did initially give us a few headaches with importing but we have this all in hand now as we pay the customs fees as soon as we know the order is in the UK.
If you need 500 + discs and have time on your side give us a call or have a look at the prices on our site.
https://www.replicationcentre.co.uk/
Tags: CD Duplication, CD Replication, DVD Duplication, DVD Replication, Helpful HInts, technology
Posted in advice, general information, printing | Comments Off on CD & DVD Replication: 19th May 2022
Friday, April 29th, 2022
Did you know that we offer a platform for you to sell your digital products whether it be music, information or videos from your own website.
We developed this platform originally to give musicians the opportunity to actually make some money from providing a downloadable product …rather than it being free on Spotify. This idea then snowballed to being developed into something that can be used by anyone who wants their customers to access a product via a download.
So for example we sell Tutorial DVDs , Dance Shows ,Craft Making Lessons….as well as the many Music Tracks , Albums EP’s and DVD’s our customers upload, for their fans to purchase .
How does this work?
You set up your products and send us your content online or by post.
Your customers purchase your products by download or physical delivery .
Customers check out and pay through our payment facility and the funds go directly to your paypal account .
You pay us a monthly fee depending on the payment plan you choose with us.
If you dont sell anything you dont pay anything.
Have a look here at the website and if you need any more information call us on 01702 530354 and speak to Martin.
https://www.thedigitalpublishingcenter.com/
Tags: advice, digital download, Helpful HInts, news, publish, selling online, Technical, technology
Posted in advice, Digital download, helping you, How To...!, Make some money, New Technology | Comments Off on Digital Publishing:29th April 2022
Friday, April 22nd, 2022
When the CD information or CD text is displayed on a computer, the information is coming from an online database. The database is usually Gracenote (the more common) or AllMusic.
The Gracenote database serves CD information to: Apple Music, WinAmp, Quintessential Media Player, and Finder (Mac OS). The AllMusic database serves CD information to: Windows Media Player, Rhapsody, and Real Music Player.
Registration on these databases must be completed by you for CD information/text to display.
You can find further information on how to submit your CD on the below links.
Gracenote Database
AllMusic Database
Tags: advice, cd text, gracenote, Helpful HInts, Technical
Posted in advice, CD Text, general information, helping you | Comments Off on CD Text / Metadata: 22nd April 2022
Thursday, April 7th, 2022
We are finding that more and more, selling your CD’s in hard copy at live venues and gigs of any kind, is a vital source of income for artists.
For musicians it is usually just audio CD that they sell, but an idea worth considering is a live DVD as well.
Not many bands sell DVDs at music gigs and would be a very different and exciting piece of merchandise.
You can have a DVD in a single card wallet …just like a CD…so it is no more expensive to produce here..just few pence more for the disc.
You can get an instant price here:
https://www.duplicationcentre.co.uk/prices.html
Or you can call and chat to us for help and advice on 01702 530354.
We look forward to speaking to you.
Tags: advice, CD Duplication, DVD, DVD Duplication, Helpful HInts, live music, Music, selling
Posted in advice, Customers, general information, helping you, live music, Make some money, music, Secrets to selling, Selling Your Music | Comments Off on Selling Your CD’s and DVD’s: 7th April 2022
Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
We offer both soft ( electronic) and hard copy proofs to you, free of charge.
Some customers just want to visualise or in the case of a hard copy, see the quality of their order and how it will actually look when printed.
So for example this customer wanted to see the colour match of his disc to the digipak:
It can be the case that printed parts will not exactly match the colour of the same colour upload, when its printed on a disc…just the fact that they are printed on different mediums can affect the tone of the colour sometimes.
In the case of a hard copy proof we print 2 copies and hold 1 here as a control and post the other to you by Royal Mail.
You then have the option to approve straight away if you are happy with the print or to alter it by uploading new artwork to us.
We will always work with you to get the best result possible for your order.
Not everyone wants or needs this so if you do, just need to mention that you would like this in the notes (which is a free field text section) as you check out.
We have all sorts of other advice in our artwork section here:
https://www.duplicationcentre.co.uk/artwork.html
Or you can call us on 01702 530354 and we will be happy to help you.
Tags: advice, artwork, CD artwork, CD Duplication, Design Tips, Helpful HInts, printing
Posted in advice, Artwork, Customers, general information, helping you | Comments Off on Proofing Your Artwork: 30th March 2022
