I've had the same problem with homemade CD's before. It seems to be much worse on slot CD drives like those on macbooks. Those things are really finnicky about the thickness of the disc you put in. I suggest CAREFULLY using a paper clip or some other solid, yet gentle object to coax it out. It's worked for me before.

You Should just punch the damn thing. It always works for me...

except for when it doesn't...

that's what she said!

I fucked a 5 disc changer by putting in what I thought was a sampler CD, but in fact was a DVD of live footage. I know it's not the same thing, and I admit I'm one of those "attempt first, read directions later" people... but regardless, it deposited a fat shit on the guts of that otherwise perfectly nice stereo.

Good luck with your problem there.

MWahhahhaha!11!

Noobs

Another reason to never own an Apple computer.

sorry Steve! they seem to work on my powerbook ok....... maybe your computer isnt quite ready for the bear. give it some time to heal, and lets make another go at it. come to the CD release tomorrow and ill buy you a beer.

The disc worked fine for me...and it's awesome.

I've heard that you can use peanut butter to get that out.

Steve: You shouldn't have bought a Mac in the first place...Or, our CD has more rock than iTunes can handle (which is highly possible)

that shit used to happen when i'd get master refs back and they had that sticker... usually, it'd be in my car disc changer... i found that pushing eject and, while the player was trying to eject, i'd put another disc into the slot to try and help dislodge the stuck disc... maybe not the best idea but it's worked every time for me.

but, yeah, stickers on cds... generally a bad idea if, not only for that issue, because the extra weight can cause the disc to play back improperly and degrade the audio or cause errors... though that can also happen from writing too much with a marker on the disc, as well, so...

Is that marker thing really true? I've heard that before and didn't know what to make of it.

Is there a specific kind of ink to avoid or is it just anything that throws off the balance?

it's pretty much just a balance thing... marker, in general, shouldn't matter. but if you drew some crazy shit all over your cd, chances are you're throwing off the balance and blah blah blah... personally, it's not something that i ever really worry about cos i haven't heard any differences, though i've also never thrown heavy markering all over a disc, either. i guess the way to look at it is a cd is traveling very fast and, dependent on where you are in the duration of the cd, the speed changes a bit and the lasers are very precise, reading that disc, so adding any potential wobble or throwing off that balance can make it read improperly... now why that's just degrading the sound instead of the player saying "what the fuck is this, i can't play it..." doesn't make much sense, but, going by what companies will accept as a master cd for pressing or for transfers, i'm sure there's quite a bit of validity in that.

a lot of mastering places have error reading software to show where information is being lost so i wonder if they've done testing on that sort of thing (the weight distribution to rpm to error ratios) but i try to play that shit safe. i do know that jake orrall gave me a letho cd he put some light paint on and it won't play correctly in any of my players.

on the other hand, you don't have that problem with vinyl... unless you're some idiot and paint all on the grooves or something