Best / Easy way to create new flip pages??

[no704]

Hello all, newbe here..  i'm sure this has likely been beaten to death a few times here but i haven't found anything useful trolling..  

So, I have a Rowe/AMI 100 disk jukebox that i got from a good friend, his family used to operate a coin-op business mostly pay phones, but cleaning out the shop we found 5 of these and were able to get 3 running.

Not really a technical topic, I typically just run it on random play, but just finished remodeling my home.  Drywall dust now cleaned up, time to clean out the Rowe.

Anyone have a good way to print new Flip Cards?  I think the track info can be read off commercial disks but am not having any luck on the www ..

Sorry no pics just now, as im on a new to me laptop, if I catch up again on my phone I will send pics!

Thanks,
Neil O
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[Ron Rich]

Hi Neil,
You are speaking of "title,strips, or (CD) cards", I assume --If so, go to our General Jukebox section, and I think your question may already be answered. Ron Rich

[no704]

I've found a couple apps that generate "title strips" I'm looking to make new cd pages.

thanks,
neil

[Ron Rich]

Neil,
Not understanding what you want-?? Are you trying to make the plastic parts ? The sorta cardboard (thick blank paper), printed information title strips, slide into the plastic holders. Pre- cut (scored) blanks are available, to print on, or you can make your own-- Ron Rich

[wdln]

What I did is made a template in MS-Word; I measured the card holders and created a fixed-size table with two columns, half for the artwork and half for the track list.  You could probably do something similar in Google apps if you don't have Word.  I quickly found that a narrow-width font is best for accommodating long song titles, especially if you have to include the band names as I did for these Billboard compilation CD's I made.

There's really no magic bullet here though... nothing (that I know of) that will read the CD and generate the card for you.  As Ron said there are all sorts of title-strip creators and templates out there for record-based jukeboxes, although you still have to type those in.  When I made my discs and cards it was a pretty arduous process; a lot of disc burning, typing, printing, cutting (a paper cutter helps with straight cuts), and then finally loading up the jukebox.

I *think* the rectangular size of the flip-cards is supposed to be so you can insert the actual booklet from the CD's jewel-box on one side, then have room on the other side to create something custom... maybe a track list with numbers if it's not visible on the booklet.  Since I was burning discs from my own music collection I didn't have any booklets, so I just created the template to be that entire rectangular size.

LMK and I'd be happy to send you the template I have, although you might have to adjust it for your specific card holders as I doubt they are a standard size.  These are from my Rockola Gala 5000.

Picture of my CD flip cards

[Ron Rich]

Guyz
All commercial CD jukeboxes produced in the USA, us a "standard size" title strip, EXCEPT some of the "Bubbler" re-productions, which use either a "half size", or the full size blanks. The blanks are still available from most of the suppliers listed in our FAQ's section. ! I believe the NSM style are still available, also from the same suppliers. Ron Rich