General Music Chat

To me the solution is start your own forum somewhere and regulate the content to death.

Just my 2 cents

Well if the members cant control themselves ....
Whoever paid for and organized this web site didnt do it for the heck of it.
It was to make a $.
By getting people to pay for memberships.
I would nurture the musical threads and weed the negative. Because I want to make money ... and it certainly wasnt just to give some a place to indulge in personal attacks/political rantings / and general BS'ing.
Letting people use it as their personal soapbox just drives away potential members. Seen it over and over.
Seems counter productive to me.
.02$

SO Lets say BM kicks me out "weeds" me, like you say. Fine, I will start my own service and call it "Band redux" and offer an uncensored forum. Only a matter of time before my competitors drop off... .

Go for it - you like to pontificate.
You couldnt afford the platform needed to run this site.
This is about as close as ye will come to having a forum.

Anyway, I Think I have lightscribe. I also created a standard cd booklet using MS publisher. (4.5" x 4.5 ") It has the graphics, the lyrics, the creditts, etc. (I have to get thicker jewel cases.) and the cover page of that booklet is also the cover for the cd graphic. (Posted as my avatar.) Check out the color and the B&W promo photo (on my profile photo album)

What kind of paper did you use for your insert? The paper used in pro CDs is very thin, but strong and glossy, I've never been able to find paper like that at Staples.

The cheapest printer "photo" paper I can find. Though it looks fairly good on plain printer paper after the thermal laminate is applied, the graphics are just so much brighter with photo paper.
Yes, this route is rather expensive, but when your doing fairly small runs it requires less investment up front that utilizing a "service".
I already had the computer, printer, lamination machine, and the LightScribe so I only really consider the disks, ink, paper, and laminate as an "expense".
It's pretty obvious that my time is not of much value so . . . there you go.