Tuesday, December 7, 2010
TrepStar.com
We're using the name TrepStar.com so people can search for us by name. We can still be reached by cd-fulfillment.com dvd-fulfillment.com or cdDVDfulfillment.com but now, we are branding the TrepStar name. Tell your friends abut Trepstar.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Product Quality
We recently updated the website with a more detailed article regarding product quality. There are a lot of cd/dvd duplication or replication companies out there that advertise a low unit cost, but they trick you by only using junk materials and upsell you later with higher cost materials and setup costs.
Updated our Pricing Page
We recently made some website updates. Namely, a more clear way to look at our cost per unit pricing
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Press Release: Lower Prices
As of April of 2017, we've recently lowered prices across the board. We've matched prices so dvds are now the same price as cds (dvds used to cost more). Also, we've really lowered prices for multi-quantity orders. Historically, our business has been focused on clients that need 1 item (quantity = 1) shipped to their individual customers at order time. We realize you sometimes need a larger quantity (maybe you need to order 50 units for a reseller). Our prices have NOT been very good in those situations. We now offer the low per unit cost regardless of quantity instead of charging a fulfillment fee for each item in the order (this means it's about $2.00 less for each item you order).
If you need 500 or more units, you could find a better price out there, but our goal is still to provide the lowest cost at any quantity, especially if you're only ordering a single item sent to a single customer.
It's hard to keep prices this low. Word of mouth advertising really helps to get new clients to our site which will keep us doing this for years to come.
If you need 500 or more units, you could find a better price out there, but our goal is still to provide the lowest cost at any quantity, especially if you're only ordering a single item sent to a single customer.
It's hard to keep prices this low. Word of mouth advertising really helps to get new clients to our site which will keep us doing this for years to come.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Quality of our CD or DVD duplication on demand manufacturing
We've written an article about our product quality here . We talk about:
- Differences in quality between various cd/dvd duplication companies
- Our mission to provide the highest quality at the lowest price even for low quantities.
- How we specialize in providing on demand, at order time, one at a time, cd/dvd manufacturing and fulfillment so clients can self publish their cd/dvd and have us make and ship their cd or dvd to their individual customers on the same day the order came in to anywhere in the world.
- Difference in quality between cheap cd or dvd cases (jewel case or amaray case)
- Difference in quality between cheap blank media (cd or dvd)
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
CD DVD Print on Demand Printing House
We are a company that will print / burn your cd/dvd on demand at order time and send it to your individual customers daily. Even though we burn the cd/dvd we sometimes are referred to as a printing house.
If you have an electronic product and want or need to have a physical product, we can burn and print your cd/dvd on demand right when the customer orders. This means you do not need to purchase a lot of inventory or send it to your customers. We do all that for you.
You charge your customer whatever you like from your web site. We take the order information. We burn and print your cd or dvd at order time (on demand or "just in time"). Your inventory never gets old because we only burn your most recent files which you can update at any time.
Create a free account. Then, create a free project. Order one for yourself without paying anything until you see the product in your hands.
We always check pricing of our competition. We charge a low rates our products no matter what you charge your customer (not a minimum plus percentage of revenue like many companies). Our prices are as good or lower than our competition.
If you have an electronic product and want or need to have a physical product, we can burn and print your cd/dvd on demand right when the customer orders. This means you do not need to purchase a lot of inventory or send it to your customers. We do all that for you.
You charge your customer whatever you like from your web site. We take the order information. We burn and print your cd or dvd at order time (on demand or "just in time"). Your inventory never gets old because we only burn your most recent files which you can update at any time.
Create a free account. Then, create a free project. Order one for yourself without paying anything until you see the product in your hands.
We always check pricing of our competition. We charge a low rates our products no matter what you charge your customer (not a minimum plus percentage of revenue like many companies). Our prices are as good or lower than our competition.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Self Publish your CD or DVD
Our Publish on Demand service for CDs and DVDs lets you sell your cd or dvd without having to make it yourself. Our cd and dvd fulfillment service handles it all. You setup a free account with us.
Setup a free project.
Upload your files.
Then, when you order, we make the disc, package it in a dvd case or cd jewel case, and ship it to your customers one at a time to your individual customers.
You may order quantity 1, or many.
We ship to anywhere in the world.
Once the project is set up and approved, when you submit an order, we produce and ship it the same day (or sometimes next day).
We can help you automate the ordering process so when people buy from your site using paypal or a shopping cart, you will not have to fill out any customer information on our site.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Print on Demand (POD) model
TrepStar.com cdDVDfulfillment is a service very similar to the print on demand (POD) model for book publishing. Instead of printing books, we burn, package, and ship cds or dvds directly to your customer. We produce the cd or dvd on demand, at order time, in any quantity, and ship directly to your customer to anywhere in the world.
This "burn on demand" or "manufacture on demand" cd and dvd fulfillment will save you money by avoiding the hassle of buying large quantities of inventory that may grow stale. You do not need to warehouse, produce, ship, package, or deal with shipment issues. This saves you money, especially if you're not sure what kind of demand your product will enjoy. If your product changes, you existing inventory becomes obsolete. This is not the case with burn on demand services like ours.
This "burn on demand" or "manufacture on demand" cd and dvd fulfillment will save you money by avoiding the hassle of buying large quantities of inventory that may grow stale. You do not need to warehouse, produce, ship, package, or deal with shipment issues. This saves you money, especially if you're not sure what kind of demand your product will enjoy. If your product changes, you existing inventory becomes obsolete. This is not the case with burn on demand services like ours.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Is TrepStar.com cdDVDFulfillment better than CD Baby?
CD Baby is a large online distributor of independent music. They do sell and distribute music, and have a large following, but charge more per order than TrepStar.com cddvdfulfillment.
TrepStar.com is like CD Baby in that we want you to make as much money as possible on your music. We can keep our costs low because we do not have distributors and do not have to pay any major labels.
We sell the music that musicians send us directly, or upload to our servers.
These days, most musicians have a myspace or facebook page. Just put a paypal button on your site to sell your music. The orders from paypal come into our system and we make and sell your music cd at order time and ship it out to your customer anywhere in the world the same day, or next day.
We can help you get your music on iTunes.
Unlike CD Baby, you take in the money first when working with TrepStar.com. With CD Baby, they take the money, take out a fairly large cut, then give you the remainder. While they do pay you more than a major record label, at TrepStar.com, you are in control. You can charge whatever you like for the cd, and simply pay us the fixed cost for TrepStar.com (about $6.20 for a cd, in jewel case, with graphic 2 panel insert, shrink wrapped, in bubble mailer, INCLUDING postage to any USA address -- costs a little more to ship overseas). You can also buy multiple quantities at a discount if you sell your cds on the road or at your gigs.
Our site is fully automated, and if you have questions, we respond to voice or email within a 24 hour period.
TrepStar.com is like CD Baby in that we want you to make as much money as possible on your music. We can keep our costs low because we do not have distributors and do not have to pay any major labels.
We sell the music that musicians send us directly, or upload to our servers.
These days, most musicians have a myspace or facebook page. Just put a paypal button on your site to sell your music. The orders from paypal come into our system and we make and sell your music cd at order time and ship it out to your customer anywhere in the world the same day, or next day.
We can help you get your music on iTunes.
Unlike CD Baby, you take in the money first when working with TrepStar.com. With CD Baby, they take the money, take out a fairly large cut, then give you the remainder. While they do pay you more than a major record label, at TrepStar.com, you are in control. You can charge whatever you like for the cd, and simply pay us the fixed cost for TrepStar.com (about $6.20 for a cd, in jewel case, with graphic 2 panel insert, shrink wrapped, in bubble mailer, INCLUDING postage to any USA address -- costs a little more to ship overseas). You can also buy multiple quantities at a discount if you sell your cds on the road or at your gigs.
Our site is fully automated, and if you have questions, we respond to voice or email within a 24 hour period.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
How do I make and exact copy of my Audio CD.
This is a confusing topic. If you have an audio CD mastered just the way you like it, and you want us to copy it exactly, you need to mail it to us so we can make a proper image file of the disc. Learn More about our easy setup
If you're not concerned about making an exact copy, but just want it to work on audio cd players (which will also work on all computers, all car cd players, and most dvd players), you can simply zip up your .mp3 or .wav files and use that to make the disc. This works perfectly well, but some people want to have an exact copy to preserve cd-text information already burned on their original cd master. If you do not know what this is, you probably don't need to make an exact cd copy. To learn more about setting up your basic project for audio cds, look at our video Audio CDs (on trepstar.com)
To make an exact CD copy:
1) Mail it to us. We charge a one time $5.00 per disc setup charge. Learn More about our $5.00 easy setup
Note: .gi files are for audio cds. .iso files are for DVDs or Data CDs that are not audio cds.
cdtext, cd-text,cd text
If you're not concerned about making an exact copy, but just want it to work on audio cd players (which will also work on all computers, all car cd players, and most dvd players), you can simply zip up your .mp3 or .wav files and use that to make the disc. This works perfectly well, but some people want to have an exact copy to preserve cd-text information already burned on their original cd master. If you do not know what this is, you probably don't need to make an exact cd copy. To learn more about setting up your basic project for audio cds, look at our video Audio CDs (on trepstar.com)
To make an exact CD copy:
1) Mail it to us. We charge a one time $5.00 per disc setup charge. Learn More about our $5.00 easy setup
Note: .gi files are for audio cds. .iso files are for DVDs or Data CDs that are not audio cds.
cdtext, cd-text,cd text
How do I create or check CD-Text on my audio cds
CD Text. Learn about it on Wiki cd text
If you mail us your audio cd, we can make an image file here that preserves the CD Text.
If you provide a zip file with .mp3 files or .wav files, we burn them using your project name as the album title and your file names as the track names.
CD Text can be used to populate internet databases that programs like iTunes and Windows Media player use to identify an album.
CDText is barely used these days. It's best if you get a copy of your CD made from TrepStar (order a copy for yourself), then use the online databases gracenote or Allmusic to submit your CD. This is how most media players (iTunes, Windows Media Player) gets information about your CD.
You need to upload the track and CD title information to the free service at gracenote.com. You can also add this data on your own computer through iTunes. Then the titles of the tracks and the CD title will appear when the CD is uploaded on any computer to iTunes or Windows Media.
To view the CD-Text on any cd you have, including those we make for you, you need a free program like VLC Media player or audiograbber (Audio grabber).
1) VLC Media Player download page https://www.videolan.org/index.html
2) Audio grabber download page: http://www.audiograbber.org/ http://www.audiograbber.org/download.html or Audio Grabber Free download
Audio Grabber looks like this: Your CD-Text will not be displayed yet. Look below for details:
By default, album and track titles are “grabbed” from internet databases such as freedb. Important: To check your discs CD-Text data, choose the menu setting “CD-Get Track Names from CD-TEXT”
cdtext,cd text
If you mail us your audio cd, we can make an image file here that preserves the CD Text.
If you provide a zip file with .mp3 files or .wav files, we burn them using your project name as the album title and your file names as the track names.
CD Text can be used to populate internet databases that programs like iTunes and Windows Media player use to identify an album.
CDText is barely used these days. It's best if you get a copy of your CD made from TrepStar (order a copy for yourself), then use the online databases gracenote or Allmusic to submit your CD. This is how most media players (iTunes, Windows Media Player) gets information about your CD.
You need to upload the track and CD title information to the free service at gracenote.com. You can also add this data on your own computer through iTunes. Then the titles of the tracks and the CD title will appear when the CD is uploaded on any computer to iTunes or Windows Media.
To view the CD-Text on any cd you have, including those we make for you, you need a free program like VLC Media player or audiograbber (Audio grabber).
1) VLC Media Player download page https://www.videolan.org/index.html
2) Audio grabber download page: http://www.audiograbber.org/ http://www.audiograbber.org/download.html or Audio Grabber Free download
Audio Grabber looks like this: Your CD-Text will not be displayed yet. Look below for details:
By default, album and track titles are “grabbed” from internet databases such as freedb. Important: To check your discs CD-Text data, choose the menu setting “CD-Get Track Names from CD-TEXT”
cdtext,cd text
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