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I've always seen this warning on CD-Rs, but I just saw a friend that has one with a little piece of printed paper taped and he says that it always reads fine without any problems (talking about an Audio CD).

I think it'd be nice that I could print a title with a nice font and tape it on the CD. If you don't get what I mean, I made a lil picture as an example hahah

Are there any risks? I need reasons not to do it!

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The reason is supposed to be putting tape or a sticker on a CD unbalances the CD, which can cause it to get scratched in the drive. Blockbuster used to put stickers on their DVDs so that people couldn't swap them, but the stickers caused the DVDs to be unbalanced and get scratched.

  PIPE?O said:
But I'm thinking of doing it only with audio cds...

Do car radios or home audio systems read at such high speeds?

You don't want to do that plus the vibration of the car itself.

I used a lable once back in 1999 I think, and the was getting reading errors and really slow unless I removed it, but that was on a crappy Creative CD-ROM (iNfra 60 something).

There's really no problem with it, I've seen mass copies of disks with labels on them from a label maker. Our TV station here uses a label maker to label all their disks and those disks are played aloooot. But I wouldn't use tape and paper, just a label.

  Persephone said:
Yeah I guess if you had an all-over label that covers the whole thing, there wouldn't be a problem.

i had some of those labels that'd cover the whole cd, the pressing thing came with a cd writer i got once, never had a problem with those. however, those labels wouldn't unbalance the cd/dvd as they cover the whole cd/dvd

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