diskkiosk

[Eric]

I stumbled on to this site:

http://www.thedisckiosk.com/

Seems they can produce a CD-R on a one-off basis for a large no. of (mostly rock) OOP CD titles. This is a blurb from their site:

CDs - ON DEMAND! (CDO) - During the last 20 years, while CDs have remained the public's music format of choice, manufacturing technology has advanced to the point where professional pressings can be made to order. This is great news for the many old classics, rarities, and titles that you may only have on vinyl - albums thought to be lost to the archives forever, now available again through CD On Demand.

CD On Demand is an officially manufactured product; the re-released albums are exact copies of the music from the original recordings and have the same cover artwork. Packaging is kept to a basic generic format, using booklet cover artwork (see example here). While it is a simplified version of the original pressing, it has passed all the record companies' quality checks for audio content and artwork reproduction

HOW DOES IT WORK? The music is digitised and manufactured to the CD without audio compression, i.e. "Red Book" standard. The CD's physical specifications, tracks, and sampling are as per the original masters. This ensures the listener is hearing the music in its full recording quality.

The processes used for the manufacture of CD On Demand takes CDR technology to a new dimension. The CDs are an audio-optimised CDR media with a true silver coloured surface. The CDRs we are using are fully compatible with any CD-Audio or CD-ROM player. (You can read more about compatibility here).

WHERE ARE THEY? CD On Demand titles are categorised and arranged alongside our 200,000+ CD range. A title currently unavailable on CD may now reappear in CD search listings, with a CD On Demand logo. More titles available means more choice all round!

[Jim Alfredson]

I don't get how this can be legal.

[Rooster_Ties]

[Claude]

It's a service offered in cooperation with Universal (UK), so it's limited to artists from that label.

THE DISC KIOSK was established in 1999. Having written and developed its own software, The Disc Kiosk now actively provides a specialist service to supply music CD's on demand (CDO) on behalf of major record companies around the world.

We now supply over 1000 albums that we have converted and placed on our system for Universal Music (UK) Ltd. and that can currently be purchased on-line from many stores including MVC, Woolworths, Streetsonline, Amazon and Ebay.

This has already existed for Universal's classical labels.

Edited March 24, 2006 by Claude

[Guest akanalog]

yeah this is meh....

it has been going on for a while.

i know that i have at least one disc that is a crappy universal looks like a bootleg job.

[Eric]

It's a service offered in cooperation with Universal (UK), so it's limited to artists from that label.

THE DISC KIOSK was established in 1999. Having written and developed its own software, The Disc Kiosk now actively provides a specialist service to supply music CD's on demand (CDO) on behalf of major record companies around the world.

We now supply over 1000 albums that we have converted and placed on our system for Universal Music (UK) Ltd. and that can currently be purchased on-line from many stores including MVC, Woolworths, Streetsonline, Amazon and Ebay.

This has already existed for Universal's classical labels.

Yeah, that is why I presumed it was legit.

With Verve and Rhino putting OOP albums online, it seems like this service may be a bit "dated", but hey, if you are looking for the music and this is the only way to get it, what the heck?

[Guest akanalog]

the verve service sucks because mac users can't access some of the stuff because the real music store is PC only.

and no artwork!!!! how hard is it to throw a few JPGs up....

[Eric]

the verve service sucks because mac users can't access some of the stuff because the real music store is PC only.

and no artwork!!!! how hard is it to throw a few JPGs up....

Actually I was thinking of their (Verve's) out-of-print album program on iTunes ... did not even know they had another one.

[Guest akanalog]

with verve-not every album is available through itunes. some are just itunes and some are just real music store. alan shorter's "orgasm" for instance, is only real music, not itunes.