SURETHING CD LABELER
User’s Guide
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and we’ve just saved you a whole lot of
typing and formatting!
Compilation Music CDs
The database of CD playlists on the
Internet usually only applies to CDs you
buy in stores. Someone has previously
submitted the playlist to the database,
hence it is available for you to access when
you insert your CD.
This doesn’t help when making compila-
tion CDs of your favorite songs, for
example. A compilation CD is your own
personal collection, so no one could have
previously submitted it to the Internet.
SureThing still makes it easy in one of two
ways to use playlists with compilation CDs.
The first is to make sure you recorded the
CD with the CD-Text option turned on in
your CD recording software (e.g., Easy CD
Creator or Nero). This will record the
playlist information directly to your CD,
and will eliminate the need for SureThing
to look for it on the Internet. Most CD-R
drives and recording software support
CD-Text but not all, consult the respective
user guides for more information on
recording CD-Text.
The second is to use the Playlist Manager
to create a custom playlist from its
database. You would first insert each of the
master CDs from which your compilation
will be created, and then select each song
to be added to your new playlist. You can
then save the compilation playlist in the
playlist database for future use. You will
find step by step instructions for this
below.
For Advanced Users
For those of you who want to know how
everything works, read on. For others, the
following might be interesting reading, but
not essential. The important thing to
remember is that for most typical playlist
designs, SureThing and SmartDesigns will
take of the details for you.
A label design with playlists is much like a
mail merge document in a word processor.
You insert fields into the document which
are placeholders. At some point, the
inserted fields are replaced with the actual
data you want to print.
In SureThing, you can view a playlist
design at any time showing either the
playlist fields, or the actual playlist data
from a CD (title, artist name, song titles,
etc). This essentially gives the label design
two modes: Playlist Field mode and Playlist
Data mode.
Display Playlist Fields mode is like creating
a template or a blueprint. Anything you do
here, like formatting text, changing
headers, inserting new playlist fields,
affects how the Playlist data will appear
once it is merged into the document. You
only need to switch to this mode if you feel
such a change is necessary.
In the example below, note that Playlist
fields are set off with curly brackets { }.
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