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Finerpoppin' Records is a new bootleg label to me. There is no info anywhere on the web about it. It says "Made in the EU", but the EU PD cutoff is 1962, so this isn't in the public domain there. I wonder if it's another Blue Moon/Jordi Pujol label? He usually presses sessions like these in Andorra where the EU PD cutoff is not observed.

Two masters I love–Earl Hines and Muggsy Spanier! “Earl Hines / Muggsy Spanier All Stars – The Chicago Dates” Storyville cd.   300×299 6.95 KB   Bass – Pops Foster Clarinet – Darnell Howard Drums – Earl Watkins Piano – Earl Hines Trombone – Jimmy Archey Trumpet, Cornet – Muggsy Spanier

If we can keep pictures and references to you-know-who out of it, we can try to leave this open. If it gets too political, Jim A has directed me to close it.

When my daughters were little, they loved Disney movies, with my oldest loving "The Little Mermaid" to the point that I wore out two VHS tape copies of it. I decided to get a laser disc player to stop having to re-buy VHS tapes. One day I came home from work and found out that my girls had decided to play hopscotch in the living room and thought that the laser discs were the perfect size for their feet. Two laser discs cracked in half. CD-Rs are very different from manufactured CDs and some players won't play a perfectly good CD-R. Instead of pits and lands there are dye & holes-in-dye. As I understand it, the frequency of the laser works in a way that for a manufactured CD, the reflected signal is out of phase and gets "scattered" depending on if it lands on a pit (top area) or a land (depressed area).   CD-Rs work the same way. but the dye is what scatters the light. The reflective layer has solid pit "ridges" with dye coated over it. The dye should block a refection from the reflective layer underneath. Depending on the dye, some amount of light gets reflected back. If the dye degrades enough. too much light gets reflected and those pits become lands. In a way, it looks like CD-Rs work the opposite of manufactured CDs in that the land is technically the top of a pit. I just learned this today (I assume it's right). I was always told that heat and direct sunlight were bad for CD-Rs, as they degraded the dye quicker. Some dyes were better than others but no CD-R dye will last long if left in direct sunlight.