Why I buy this one ?
- Supports HP LightScribe direct labeling drives
- Automatically align your printers with the Printer Alignment Wizard
- Reads data or backup CDs and creates an instant summary
- Video DVD / Chapter support
- Import art from tons of stock graphics or your own photographs

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What our customer's say!

"Adequate But Not Much More", My goal: to convert vinyl records into CDs.

I bought CD Label Maker rather unwillingly, as the result of a bottom-feeding marketing ploy by Acoustica. Buying it was the only way I could (without major hassle) print out the track information of a CD created using Spin-It-Again. This is an essential part of the vinyl record to CD digitization process, because CDs are not able to have named tracks.

At least Acoustica gives you a $7 discount if you've already bought Spin-It-Again and then discover you still have to fork over an additional 50% of the original purchase price to get a fully functional product. ($21.95 is what you have to pay for CD Label Maker if you don't already own Spin-It-Again)

I am not very impressed with CD Label Maker. I had a version of Nero Burning ROM about ten years ago that came for free with my CD burner that was better in most respects.

There is one major feature that people printing labels directly on their CD media will like: the ability to print curved lines of text. Since I am still at the Magic Marker stage of disk labeling, I don't know how well this feature works. Likewise for the super-tiny fonts that are supposedly included.

The editing windows of CD Label Maker are usefully divided into the front, inside and back inserts, as well as one for printing directly on the disk itself. The front and inside default to being printed as a "booklet," which is convenient. You can print out the "booklet" on a single sheet of 8.5" x 11" (or A4) paper, then cut it out, fold it in half and slip it into the front cover of a jewel case. If you check a box, it will print an outline of the images for you to cut around.

There is a fairly large selection of art and backgrounds that come with the product, but I haven't looked at them. I photograph the cover of the album I'm digitizing and then import the .jpeg file into CD Label Maker to use as the front of the booklet. This is extremely simple: in the Art Browse tab, browse to the folder where the .jpeg resides and double-click on its thumbnail. Once it appears in the Front editing window, a right-click allows setting the mode: clip the larger dimension, white-fill the smaller dimension (both of these maintain the original aspect ratio of the imported art) or force-to-fit, which changes the aspect ratio. Clip the larger dimension is the default. You can also manually adjust each side of the image if you want to do that instead.

On the right-click context menu, you can rotate the image by 90 degrees either direction, by 180 degrees, or you can flip it either vertically or horizontally. You can also adjust the brightness (lighter/darker) of the image, although this didn't work quite like I was expecting.

For the inside label, I start with a Text Box. This is simple and works like it should: click on the Text icon on the toolbar, and then type inside the box that appears. Select all the text with a mouse drag, and set the font size. Drag the box to put it where you want it, and use the handles to adjust its size. I use this to put the album name at the top of the page. It is also possible to affect a vast range of text properties.

With Spin-It-Again open, and the long recorded .wav file of the whole album loaded, hitting the "Show Tracks" button in any of the editing windows in CD Label Maker will put in a listing of the tracks. A right-click on the tracks will allow selection of other fields than the defaults, and also will allow turning off any of the default fields.

I find the track list's default settings annoying. First, the track numbers are in italics. To change this, I have to right-click, select the Numbers field, and then click the "I" button at the bottom (with no indication that it is already enabled -- the button is not pushed in). There is no way to set this as the default, so I have to do it every time.

The track numbers are left justified in their field. This makes for an ugly display, because all the track names starting with 10 are indented one space from tracks 1-9. There is no way to change this behavior. There is no way to add a period after the track numbers. There is no way to add a user-defined field and type in it.

The default layout is squished up in the middle, and the track names word-wrapped. There is no reason for this, in my opinion. There is plenty of room on both the inside and back labels to have a wider space. Although there is no instruction or Help entry on how to do this, it is possible to drag the headings at the top like you would in Windows Explorer or Excel, and widen them. The tracks do un-word-wrap correctly when their column is wide enough. Once you widen them, you have to recenter the entire list, which must be done completely manually, by eyeball.

The default font size is 8, which, again, is inexcusable, in my opinion. It is virtually illegible when printed, and, once again, takes up less than a quarter of the available space on the page. To fix this, I have to right-click, select All, then change the font size in the drop-down at the bottom. It is not possible to change the font size, style, boldness, justification, or any other property for a single field of the listing. All settings apply across the whole listing. This makes it impossible, for example, to have bolded track numbers but regular text for the track names.

Track times are turned off by default. To turn them on, I have to right-click and then choose to display that field. On every CD I make a label for.

The Print dialog retains the number of copies to print from invocation to invocation and file to file, so if you print multiple copies of a label, be careful the next time you only want to print one.

All in all, not a very impressive product. If I had not been forced to do so by Acoustica's scum-sucking marketing department, I would not have bought this product by choice, on its merits alone.




"Finally a great label maker", After several tries I have finally found a great label maker. This easy program makes lablels that actually fit the template and comes with LOTS of pre-designed options. It's fast, simple and works well; exactly what you hope for in software.

"Awesome and Easy!", I downloaded a free one month trial of this label maker and just loved it. It is super easy to use and gives professional looking CD & DVD labels, including the paper inserts for DVD and CD cases. I made some awesome mixed tapes this Christmas that looked so professional, my friends couldn't believe they were home made! Worth the money if you do a lot of burning/downloading. Great for labeling photo CD's, too.