How to Buy Blank CDs

Blank CDs cost anywhere from 10 cents to more than $1 apiece. The kind you buy depends on your equipment and what you want to do.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Computer manual

1. Check your computer manual to see if your CD burner is a CD-R (recordable) or a CD-RW (rewritable). Recordable discs can be used only once, but rewritable discs can be used over and over.

2. Keep in mind that blank CD-Rs will work in a CD-RW burner, but CD-RWs won't work in a CD-R burner.

3. Buy blank CDs with gold-tone on the bottom to record archival material, such as family photographs or financial records.

4. Get less-expensive green-toned CDs if you're making everyday copies of documents, photos, and music.

5. Buy CD-Rs (not CD-RWs) if you're recording music to be played on a portable or car stereo. Choose blank CDs labeled "Music," "Digital Audio" or "DA" if your CD burner is part of your system.

Tips & Warnings

• Blank CDs labeled "Music" cost more, as a portion of the price goes to recording artists as royalties. They are the only CDs that work in stereo-component CD burners.

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on 6/11/2007 The easiest way.
Just peel it off slowly. It works for me. Try it for yourself :)

on 11/22/2005 Try spraying a little WD-40 (or generic equivalent) on a soft cloth onto the CD case. Rub lightly and sticky residue comes right off.

on 11/22/2005 Here are some things that you do not do to a CD:
Do not breathe on a CD and then wipe it off if it has smudges. It will make it worse! Do not wipe a CD off with water and a paper towel! This doesn't work! Do not rip a CD out of the CD case like a crazed chimp looking for bananas! Be very careful when taking it out of the case!

on 11/22/2005 Do you hate it when you buy a new DVD or CD and it's got some ugly sticker on the case? If you're lucky, you can peel it off without leaving any residue, but often there's a bunch of sticky "gunk" left on your shiny new CD case. You can push it around with your fingernails, but it doesn't really go away. If you try scraping it off with a wet paper towel, it just makes a bigger mess.

To get rid of the adhesive residue, you don't need "Goo-Gone" or any other "product." All you need is a dab of olive oil. Put a few drops on a paper towel and work it into the residue, then scrape it off. There will be no stickiness left. Other cooking oils will probably work just as well.