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Label Maker 2.50
Align Your Printer
Acoustica Survey
Restore your LPs & Tapes - Make your LPs & tapes sound like new!
Updates & more news
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Newsletter March 2006
Ed. #28
Label Yourself Silly with Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker 2.50!
Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker has yet another free upgrade for all registered label maker users!  This update includes a new printer calibration/alignment wizard!
The calibration wizard makes it easy to get your printer on track.  With some...well, most printers,  the paper will tend to drift to one side or the other and the result is a slight white border on one side of your printed disc or label.
How To Align Your Printer
BEFORE
So your printer is not printing exactly straight?  Leaving a little bit of white around the edges? 

It may not look that great, especially if you are trying to impress someone.

Before Printer Calibration
AFTER
Fix it with the new calibration wizard!  Print perfect labels every time!
After Printer Calibration

To fix this problem, follow these easy instructions!

1. Run Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker
2. Click on "Printer Calibration" from the "File" menu
3. Follow the instructions, select your printer.
4. The software will print a paper grid that you fold in half horizontally and fold in half vertically.
5. The fold lines will indicate how much calibration your printer needs.  You will enter these into the software.
6. That's it!  Print straight from now on! (If it gets out of whack, align it again.)
Enjoy the benefits of Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker:
  • Print spiral and circular text on your CD & DVD labels
  • Import song track lists easily from iTunes, directly off the CD or other burning programs.
  • Choose from any paper type ever created and then some.
  • Print directly on your CD/DVD direct to disc printer!

New version 2.50 features include:

  • Printer calibration wizard
  • Printer troubleshooting FAQ - click the troubleshooting button
  • Canon printer fix for media type and paper bin selection & more Canon direct-to-CD printers supported.
  • Can now skip printing CD & DVD holes - 'Crop holes option' in Printer dialog
  • Can now set precise size of image and shapes down to the tenths of millimeters.
  • Bug fixes.
Buy yourself some CD sanity

(If you've purchased a previous version of Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker, your upgrade is free.  Just download the new version!)

"I am not in the habit of writing testimonials for software that actually does what it's supposed to do. After all, that's what I paid for and I expect nothing less. But your CD/DVD Label Maker is in a class by itself, as far as I'm concerned. It is so easy to use that I had printed out my first label and jewel case inserts within 10 minutes after installing the program--and that was WITHOUT using the wizard. With the wizard, it takes me less than 5 minutes! And the printout actually fits the Avery labels and inserts I have without my having to make adjustments to the printer. I have tried at least four other label maker programs, including Roxio and Nero, but none of them compares with your product. This was so simple, I nearly cried tears of joy and relief. This is software as it was intended to be: it makes the end user's task easier and even fun! As I said, I don't usually write testimonials, but I would have felt guilty if I hadn't done so in this case. Great job!" - William Marsh Gales Ferry, CT, USA
Get labeling now!  Buy it! Stop scrawling with felt tip pens.  Label your CDs & DVDs!
Survey - Tell Us What Software You Want Now!!
Survey Says! We just released Spin It Again™ and it's proven to be highly successful.  Last year, we asked you what software you'd like.  Around 2000 people responded and told us that they wanted an easy program to convert LPs to CD.  Faithfully, we developed the software and unveiled it as Spin It Again.  It paid off, so to speak.
Instead of building what we think is cool and 'neat', we'll build what you actually want.  It serves two purposes:  It makes you happy and it keeps us in business!  :)

Please take a few moments to tell us what software you'd like us to develop.  The survey also includes a question regarding what features you'd like developed for Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker.

Take the poll! (Less than one minute.)
Spin It Again™ - Remove Clicks, Pops, Hum & Crackle & Convert your records & tapes to CD or MP3!

Did you miss our Spin It Again announcement last time? Spin It Again v. 1.1 was released in February.  Of course, you can live without it, but if you want to preserve the life of your records and tapes, you should definitely try it out.

The Acoustica Team has added an amazing click, crackle and hum remover to the new version 1.1 and it sounds so great that it's hard to believe it is so automatic.  (With other programs you have to click on each audible click and 'hand-remove' them.)

Just listen to these example MP3s!  In each case, we made the recording, selected a cleaning preset and saved it as an MP3.  Click on a link below to hear the before and after.

Beans - Original Beans - Original.MP3 (Before) Beans CLEANED! Beans - CLEANED.MP3 (After)
Blues - Original Blues - Original.MP3 (Before) Blues - CLEANED! Blues - CLEANED.MP3 (After)
Spin Your LPs into CDs!

(If you've purchased a previous version of Spin It Again, your upgrade is free.  Just download the new version!)

"This is amazing! I spent two whole days tweaking another program to make my old LP's sound good enough to put on my iPod. I went back to the internet, found your site, downloaded the trial version and knew after the first recording that this would do the trick! Thank you! I have many, many tapes and lp's that I can now hear again (it seems a turntable is too much trouble anymore!)" - Marion White Chantilly, VA USA
Purchase Acoustica Spin It Again Stop spinning your wheels with complex, time consuming software and just Spin It Again!
Acoustica News & Updates
03/22/06 Soft release of MP3 CD Burner 4.11 b119.  It includes improved CD/DVD drive recognition and bug fixes.
03/14/06 Released CD/DVD Label Maker 2.50.  This mainly fixes bugs and has minor improvements.  Version history
02/21/06 Updated Spin It Again 1.1 with powerful click & pop removal & improved tagging.  Updated CD/DVD Label Maker with new Printer Alignment Wizard, bug fixes and re-addition of Full Faced label types.
02/20/06 Updated the supported CD label paper types & printers for Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker.  ( Updated support for ProLabel labels & inserts. )
 
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