I made my first bootleg CD!
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2025 10:17 pm
So, I want to be able to have the music of some artists I follow and like on CD. My usual way of going about this is buying directly from them, or looking through stores and street markets to see if they have anything I'm interested in. It gets tricky when CDs are no longer in production, when the artists are from another continent and finding their stuff here is super tricky, or when they have the nerve to have never released anything on CD...
So, I bought ten blank CD-Rs and jewel cases, and I decided the UNDERTALE Soundtrack would be a good test run to see how easily I could do it.
The physical edition of the UNDERTALE Soundtrack comes in two CDs in a DVD sized box, so I had to adapt or recreate the official art by hand to fit in a jewel case, and have my disc be an MP3 CD, since the 90+ minute soundtrack with 101 tracks would not fit in one CD.
I fumbled my first attempt by labelling my tracks "01, 02, 03, etc" instead of "001, 002, 003, etc", so my CD player was playing the 100th and 101st tracks where the 11th and 12th tracks should be. No problem, lesson learned. I burn another disc, this one works perfectly.
The next hardest part was cutting the CD label I had had printed on A4 sticker paper, since the middle part was pretty tough to get right. Everything else was pretty easy. I made the slip cover, the back thing, and boom! Pretty good if I do say so myself.
I definitely want to do this for all four DELTARUNE chapters... Not sure what else to make, but the sky is the limit >:3 (i guess my wallet is also the limit lol)
So, I bought ten blank CD-Rs and jewel cases, and I decided the UNDERTALE Soundtrack would be a good test run to see how easily I could do it.
The physical edition of the UNDERTALE Soundtrack comes in two CDs in a DVD sized box, so I had to adapt or recreate the official art by hand to fit in a jewel case, and have my disc be an MP3 CD, since the 90+ minute soundtrack with 101 tracks would not fit in one CD.
I fumbled my first attempt by labelling my tracks "01, 02, 03, etc" instead of "001, 002, 003, etc", so my CD player was playing the 100th and 101st tracks where the 11th and 12th tracks should be. No problem, lesson learned. I burn another disc, this one works perfectly.
The next hardest part was cutting the CD label I had had printed on A4 sticker paper, since the middle part was pretty tough to get right. Everything else was pretty easy. I made the slip cover, the back thing, and boom! Pretty good if I do say so myself.
I definitely want to do this for all four DELTARUNE chapters... Not sure what else to make, but the sky is the limit >:3 (i guess my wallet is also the limit lol)
