News New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc

[Admin]

A developer has dusted off an ancient software project for burning visual artwork onto the surface of a standard Compact Disc.

New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc : Read more

 

[pjmelect]

An interesting idea would be to have some area of the disc so that labels could be inserted saying what’s on the disc, it would decrease the capacity of the disc data storage but in most case this would be OK.

 

[Notton]

Can this overwrite discs with data already on them or degraded/kaput discs?
I ask because plain old CD/DVD discs as bird reflectors is bland.

 

[HardwiredWireless]

This isn't a new tool at all, it's the same laser writer that's always been used to burn discs.

 

[nathan-osman]

I hate to be pedantic but the pits and lands on a compact disc don't represent 1's and 0's — rather, the presence or absence of a transition between the two.

This is worth noting because it makes the feat more impressive. Combined with the Reed-Solomon coding used for error correction, the fact that a bitstream can be generated that renders an image after transformation is incredible. I'm really curious how the timing works as well.

 

[MrRom92]

An interesting idea would be to have some area of the disc so that labels could be inserted saying what’s on the disc, it would decrease the capacity of the disc data storage but in most case this would be OK.

This did exist, almost 25 years ago, it was introduced by Yamaha as “Disc T@2” and you could still write audio to the disc as well as the text. Though of course it would cut into your available disc capacity. It was also written in such a way that the nonsense data wouldn’t be recognized or attempted to be read by whatever you put the disc in.

 

[oe--]

➕1 (plus sign is detected as spam lol)

The Yamaha CD burner I got when I was a kid, about 30 years ago already did that.
It allowed to burn both music and designs in the unused space.

 

[EduApps]

Bro is still using Windows in mid 2025

 

[hwertz]

I never realized lightscribe required flipping the disk, and special disks. (I recall reading about it being able to burn pics on cds back in the day but never looked into it since I had a magic marker LOL.)

This is pretty neat! I have a bunch of blanks and zero use for them, AND a CD/DVD burner still installed, so I may try this out!

 

[reryro]

Bro is still using Windows in mid 2025

And you're still saying "bro" -- like a stunted 12-year-old. I think I'll side with the person who doesn't idolize particular forms of technology...like a stunted 12-year-old.

 

[Loadedaxe]

Bro is still using Windows in mid 2025

Imagine needing an entire personality built around using the slang "Bro"

Its 2025 and you're still acting like using Linux gives you a personality. I use what works, not what makes me feel superior on Reddit. If your entire identity is not using Windows, maybe touch grass instead of your keyboard for once.

 

[USAFRet]

Guys...lets leave off the personal attacks, OK?

 

[USAFRet]

I never realized lightscribe required flipping the disk, and special disks. (I recall reading about it being able to burn pics on cds back in the day but never looked into it since I had a magic marker LOL.)

This is pretty neat! I have a bunch of blanks and zero use for them, AND a CD/DVD burner still installed, so I may try this out!

data was on one side as normal, the picture or whatever was on the other.
I made many a LightScribe disk in my time.

 

[reryro]

A developer has dusted off an ancient software project for burning visual artwork onto the surface of a standard Compact Disc.

New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc : Read more

How does this from the developer:
If your compact disc is not mentioned in the track generating dialog, you'll probably fail.
become this:
the technique works on any disc

 

[nitrium]

I would assume given that CDs write from inside to out, that you can use this tool to make the designs on the unused part of the disc (e.g. a CD with just one song on it will have a lot of blank space) after the data track(s), if you edit the graphic appropriately to have it not draw on the actual data portion(?). That way you can still have a useable CD with a design on it.

 

[MrRom92]

I would assume given that CDs write from inside to out, that you can use this tool to make the designs on the unused part of the disc (e.g. a CD with just one song on it will have a lot of blank space) after the data track(s), if you edit the graphic appropriately to have it not draw on the actual data portion(?). That way you can still have a useable CD with a design on it.

As mentioned above, this did exist and it did work with any disc (though some media formulations did offer more or less contrast and visibility of the written text/image)

 

[EduApps]

Imagine needing an entire personality built around using the slang "Bro"

Its 2025 and you're still acting like using Linux gives you a personality. I use what works, not what makes me feel superior on Reddit. If your entire identity is not using Windows, maybe touch grass instead of your keyboard for once.

Aren't you the guys who says that Recall was a terrible decision and would never use Win11 because it takes screenshot of your screen ever few seconds, because your PC can't run it, because it's buggy, because it shows ads or invade your browser's space just to prompt another browser?

And yet still keeps using bs like a slave? Like you said, I just use what works.

 

[Loadedaxe]

Aren't you the guys who says that Recall was a terrible decision and would never use Win11 because it takes screenshot of your screen ever few seconds, because your PC can't run it, because it's buggy, because it shows ads or invade your browser's space just to prompt another browser?

And yet still keeps using bs like a slave? Like you said, I just use what works.

I’m not sure where you're getting that from, but that wasn’t me.

I didn’t realize I had a fan club tracking me, but use something I did say. But hey, we all serve something, right? Some follow their convictions, others follow outrage.