OOP Universal titles available as Print On Demand

[Daniel A]

This may be old news, but a copy of a long OOP Clarke-Boland album (Three Latin Adventures) available from UK Amazon Marketplace made me check out the British company The Disk Kiosk.

It appears as if they are allowed to manufacture some kind of industrial CDRs under licence from Universal, among a couple of other companies. Not much jazz, but some. Confusingly some titlles still seem to be oficcially avialble from Universal as well.

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. 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.

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!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

The search by artist function is quaintly eccentric. I put in "Johnny Lytle" and got one hit "Alex Reece". Why didn't I get thousands?

MG