How to make your own CDs with Kunaki! | Tutorial and Unboxing

[@DGtheArtist]

Thanks everyone for checking out this video!! If it helped you out, would greatly appreciate if you check out my latest song - it's a crazy hyperpop autotune-infused banger that I'm very proud of 😁 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6u9lKh7esuYfLM Drop a sub for more cool music if you enjoy, got my next album dropping soon!

[@EmmettA]

Thank you SO much for this tutorial , There's an artist whos music isn't on streaming platforms and they don't sell physical media aside from clothing, but they released their whole discography for free to the public, Going to make CD's so i can have a physical version of their music for myself, after buying merch of course !

[@DGtheArtist]

Awesome!! Really glad this video helped, enjoy your CDs :)

[@CTangeloe]

Who is the artist

[@samueljeavons8943]

Cindy Lee?!

[@EmmettA]

@@CTangeloe the artist I'm referring to is Macroblank , it's instrumental and if you've never listened I highly recommend🙌🏼

[@EmmettA]

@@samueljeavons8943 I'm this case an artist that goes by Macroblank , all the albums are on KZbin , all instrumental stuff and a favorite of mine id recommend it

[@LuxxVerum]

This is Awesome, I'm definitely going to get into this when I can, thank you so much!

[@DGtheArtist]

Glad to hear it! Enjoy your CDs :D

[@oldschooldude7729]

@@DGtheArtist I've been checking the facebook and message board of one rapper from New York, Necro, and his non American fans can't get Necro cds or vinyl shipped to them from the Kunaki plant in Nevada. They only ship domestically now in and around United States.

[@BNWilliamGaming]

Honestly, I think I’m going to check them out! I’ve been burning my own CDs and DVDs for a while now and I can just print off the cover, but I would love having custom disc art that didn’t reek of being a homemade CD/DVD. Edit was grammar fix

[@FNFMaster234]

Man, I need to start working on an album now, this is actually so cool!

[@KLR4E.second.Official]

This is amazing, I have been making my own cds but now I have heard of this I am definitely going to try this out!

[@kleolovescats]

your album cover looks like it tastes like coffee (in a positive way)

[@DGtheArtist]

LOL, give it a listen and find out 😂

[@spencersolberg]

That's insane I had no idea it was that cheap!

[@CheapSushi]

They seem to be the only one out there that can make something decent at ultra low volume or even have the option to aside from DIY. All the other sites seem to be at least 25-to-100 minimums.

[@DGtheArtist]

Agreed, I spent a while looking through a bunch of places and this was definitely the best one I found, it's really great for low or high volume :)

[@mkiswatoo]

Probleml is that shipping to Europe is very expensive. I haven't found a better solution yet :/

[@warmsignal]

Would be cool to see some more customization options like clear jewel cases with disc tray artwork, multi-page booklet or fold-out prints, and even digi-paks. As it is, seems little basic on the design side of things, but the service is very cool.

[@Momo-zd8vu]

Thank you so much, really good video, gets straight to the point, lots of useful advice!

[@DGtheArtist]

Thanks so much! Glad I helped :)

[@KilobitePandaMusic]

imma need this one day.

[@ollysmoviesandmusic2047]

i printed my first EP using Kunaki, and it's always been a reliable source. yeo!

[@bbldrizzy-r8i]

Omg I went to the album after this vid and you are underrated I hope you make it big🙏🙏🙏

[@DGtheArtist]

Eyyy thanks so much, that means the world to me! Working real hard on the next album, stay tuned 😁

[@Vinyl_C]

Hey, so I want to make a CD on this level but I’m from England and it’s all in dollars and now way to make it into pounds? Thanks for help.

[@spyynz]

just google a converter??

[@ludovicolongo4559]

When making the CD, can I upload songs that aren't mine, and that I downloaded from the internet? Or would I have issues with Copyright? (My end goal is to make a cool CD with a few of my dad's favorite songs and give it to him as a gift.)

[@mintybudgie]

kunaki doesn't care about copyrighted audio. one of the things they advertise are making cds for loved ones

[@ludovicolongo4559]

got it, tysm man @@mintybudgie

[@isaactovar7132]

Where did you go to download the music? I’m having trouble and can’t get audio files

[@333dae]

@@mintybudgie Also people can legally buy mp3s and flacs and burn their own CDs, so they don't need to interrogate customers over that and just assume the best of their customers

[@HorribleHomeVideo]

i been using them since 2007, and people like you are gonna fuck it up. do not bootleg. thanks!

[@imark7777777]

Pretty cool but wondering if they support CD text? I love how simplistic the website is nothing fancy just get the job done and be mostly functional. Don't know why KZbin recommended this to me but hey it was neat.

[@szymoneczekgames2004]

do they ship worldwide for the artist? I live in europe and would they ship me those 4 cd's to see how they look or is it US only?

[@brunomd288]

GREAATT video. DIDNT know about this platform. Will definitely check it out

[@KharMohn]

Appreciate this bro!

[@DGtheArtist]

Happy to help!

[@altisonic]

Great video, that's really helpful. Thanks!

[@DGtheArtist]

Happy to help!

[@MichaelRabbitBass3]

I am going to show this to my pastor so we can put his sermons on CD

[@ediguess]

Hey, I checked the website and I saw that there was an option for vinyl releases. Have you ever tried making any vinyl releases from Kunaki? If you have, how was the quality?

[@ray8413]

Question can you yes this to make a personal CD and not for mass production?

[@BarryGrueter]

Very cool, thanks so much 🙏

[@DGtheArtist]

Glad it helped!

[@johans.31718]

Sadly, Kunaki stopped shipping outside the US :( Is there any alternative for Europeans?

[@disconnectica]

I'm preparing a gapless album, ie some tracks flow from one to the next. Will this work without glitches between tracks? Also, given 4 is cheaper per disc than 5 or more, is there any reason not to just buy multiple sets of 4, presuming you want less than 40 or so?

[@DGtheArtist]

My album also has some pretty tight transitions (between tracks 6 and 7 is the main one) and it came out really smooth! And yeah sets of 4 has been my preference, seems to be the cheapest way unless you're doing truly bulk orders.

[@DGtheArtist]

Btw not sure what kind of transitions you're planning but mine are more of a beat dropping from one track to the next rather than a continued note that gets held between tracks, so for my case it's a little harder to tell if it's really *perfectly* smooth (as opposed to having a millisecond of silence or something), but it does sound exactly as I intended it :)

[@disconnectica]

@rtistOK thanks. I heard something about CDs operating on 1/75ths of a second, so I'm lining up my song transitions on multiples of 1/75th, but no idea if that will work. CDs have always handled seemless transitions much better than streaming services though so I expect it should be OK. I'll do one first to test anyway. I'm in Australia though, so most of the cost is shipping! Thanks for the reply.

[@disconnectica]

@@DGtheArtistI would like it perfectly smooth between at least some tracks. I tried to set it up tonight, but Kunaki state that they will add the "industry standard" 2 second silence between all tracks on an audio CD! WHYYY? I uploaded my tracks and tested with their virtual player, which has no slider or fast forward so just had to wait till end of track, and sure enough it just cuts for 2 seconds, then continues with next track. This sucks. They offer ability to upload an ISO and CUE file, but I found that ISO files don't exist for audio CDs, despite what they say, and seems they don't need CUE files anyway. Seems gapless audio CDs is impossible. I could try a data CD, which won't be supported on all players, and is less likely to work gaplessly anyway. Looks like one option might be to burn a CD myself and then use their tool to upload a copy.

[@DGtheArtist]

Ahhh that sucks 😢 not sure why they're adding 2 seconds on yours, the way I did it there aren't long gaps like that. Worst case you could always combine your songs with gapless transitions into a single track?

[@pd1jdw630]

Thanks for sharing!! This is awesome. Why didn’t I know this sooner. Btw, there is a proper way of opening a jewel case. 😉

[@RAYJ.drawingzz]

Im 12 (almost 13) and a fan of melanie martinez i am just starting an album, im in the writing era im almost done with writing. If my album finishes and im getting a tiny fanbase i May be selling/making these sort of cds! (It wont happen but idk)

[@HotButterVODS]

That's great, I love to see an aspiring music artist. I really hope everything works out for you!!!

[@mynewuser123]

A Mel fan spotted I'm a melanie Martinez fan also and I just surprise I found one and we are the same age Good luck (Sorry if I said this randomly 😭 this os so embarrassed i just felt i would not see a mel fan)

[@mynewuser123]

I came here because I want to have CDs of elita harkov (Angelina from k12) she doesn't sell CDs and I probably buy the digital album on bandcamp

[@Ummmmm12712]

Do they have fully transparent jewel cases as alternatives?

[@NoCluYT]

The Y2K kids will be all over this😭😭

[@hanadhade7990]

Is this for every were in the world

[@back-roads]

This is so cool!! It came out great!

[@officialmarkiplier]

The website everyone needed

[@lildujour]

Dope! Thanks man. This was great

[@ExistentialShrimp]

bought one :))

[@DGtheArtist]

Yoooooo REAL ONE ALERT 🙏 thanks for the years of support, enjoy the CD 😁

[@BioFactory1]

One question I have is how are your actual sales from them? How much do you averagely make?

[@chuuisinsane]

i love their site ive used them before to make bootlegs lol

[@ramilopez6921]

How's the sound compared to what you uploaded? Does it sound as good as the files you sent? How do they compare to commercial CDs?

[@DGtheArtist]

It sounds very good to me but I've only played it in my car which has pretty mediocre speakers :P I don't notice any drop in quality when comparing the same songs on aux and CD, but it's admittedly hard to be certain since they're not great speakers to begin with. It is comparable to how commercial CDs sound on those speakers though. And for what it's worth I haven't heard anyone complain about sound quality with Kunaki :)

[@ramilopez6921]

@@DGtheArtist Thank you for the info

[@MACKerMD]

Opening a CD-Jewel case can be done with your single pinky .. Do NOT open it as a book [as you do in the video] but open it using the half-circle ribbed parts on the upper edge and bottom of the transparent plastic .. lift it up and it will open without force.

[@MetalJuggaloYTP]

I've been wanting to start rapping and this would be perfect for producing demos to hand out. I thought for a bulk order I'd be looking at upwards of $50 but that is actually a really good price

[@DGtheArtist]

Do it!! Having a creative outlet like rap is awesome :)

[@MetalJuggaloYTP]

@DGtheArtist I've started writing random lyrics, titles, and ideas in my notes app. I've taken a lot of inspiration from ICP and other such rappers from the 90s/00s

[@recenzjapolskiejmuzyki1]

why do they ship only to the US....

[@dr_classified]

This is a very neat tutorial and is reassuring me to use it for my upcoming album! One question tho; When inserting the images onto the cite for the CD, is it just the images I am using, or do the pictures you choose for the sleeves, back covers, etc. look blurrier on the CD display compared to the OG version of the picture? Asking for quality's sake.

[@DGtheArtist]

Hey thanks for watching! And yeah on the site the pictures definitely look blurrier than the original versions, but in person they don't have that issue - the actual prints look great imo! :)

[@dr_classified]

@@DGtheArtist Awesome, thank u! I also listened to some of ur stuff after the video! Keep it up, it's good!!!

[@DGtheArtist]

Eyyy thanks so much, really appreciate that!! More coming real soon 😁

[@originalvonster]

That’s so cool. I wish there was a UK alternative like this.

[@TheTortaLover_YT]

How do I put more than 30 tracks?

[@StanLeFox]

Some of my favourite albums don't have CDs, so this website is great for making customs. The only downside is the steep shipping cost to europe (around £8 including shipping) Edit: I've just spent almost 3 hours of my life making a custom CD for my favourite album, just to find out that they no longer ship to the uk :( what a waste of time

[@nayzal]

I know, I was so disappointed a while back... I spent ages designing the cd for my debut album, ordered it, and as it was shipping to me they stopped shipping outside the us. really unfortunate, but their wording ("for the time being") gives me hope that they might start doing so again

[@samueljeavons8943]

Have you found a similar website that ships to the UK?

[@nayzal]

@@samueljeavons8943 the best I've found so far is maybe trepstar, but they're a bit more expensive and not as flexible.

[@StanLeFox]

@@samueljeavons8943 nope

[@josedelacruz1270]

Thanks for this man! Very much appreciate the whole process rundown. How long did Kunaki take to deliver your product after you submitted payment?

[@theknight2gibson9132TheMen]

Wait What I Can have My Own case and CD Game this is awesome. 👏🏾

[@back-roads]

I hear a UFO in the background🛸

[@JaredtheRabbit]

I'd love to work on an album just to use this service, but I fear that not one copy would sell. On top of that, the drop down menu on the price/shipping calculator only shows the United States.

Does it work on South America? (talking from Colombia)

[@TheTortaLover_YT]

How do you he’s the template

[@brandonstouff6902]

Thank you for including the info about the selling site. I think you answered my question about the shipping cost. I just uploaded my first DVD. Waiting on my test product I ordered before I pull the trigger on setting up the sale site. Thanks again for the info!! One question I do have. How do you pay Kunaki the manufacturing cost and shipping? Is it through PayPal on the site?

[@eljinete666]

Wow thx a lot dude 😊

[@DGtheArtist]

Happy to help!

[@hoodraver]

the only downside is that not all parts of the case are transparent, it'd look much more clean and better imo

[@--legion]

Kunaki has no option for inside tray artwork, hence no transparent tray - a good reason to look elsewhere.

[@demko5036]

Great video! Do you know if their cds printed on CD-R or CD-RW?

[@thanielionlee]

they are cdrs

[@casesamus]

I’m trying to upload files through my phone and it won’t allow me to. They are all wav files

[@skotadistisgtech]

Hello, your video taught me a lot and thank you. But i need one more info. Does Kunaki ship worldwide, for example in Greece, or is it US Exclusive?

[@DGtheArtist]

Hi! They do ship worldwide (including Greece) but shipping is more expensive. You can check their shipping calculator here: kunaki.com/calculator1.asp

[@skotadistisgtech]

@@DGtheArtist thank you so much for the answer. Your tutorial was fire. I checked it yesterday, it pretty expensive in terms of shipping.

[@HorribleHomeVideo]

been using them since 2007

[@search895]

What kind of CDs are those? Burned, stamped...?

[@soyese9530]

Does they have anyway to contact kunaki?

[@Denisl2-f9s]

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone here also used kunaki because I have a question. How long does it usually take to ship to europe? Ive ordered a CD a month ago and i didnt get any updates… ups doesnt have any updates since july 17th and on air mail the tracking number doesnt even work…

[@--legion]

To the UK - a couple of weeks as is usual for purchases from US. In future, you might try CD-Click which is based in Italy.

[@zePHANTOM_Music]

So how much did it cost you to purchase 4 CDs? $4.40?

[@DGtheArtist]

$5.20 ($1.30 each) plus shipping, I think it came out to around $13 total.

[@zePHANTOM_Music]

oh wow!! that’s pretty good. Thank you so much! great vid!

[@UPNEXX.]

cost for one?

[@chartcity]

it cant be only for one cd, just 4 pc

[@tiller56]

@@chartcityyou can buy 1 singular cd

[@rodericksparkss]

Hey do you have any place for vinyls? ❤

[@DGtheArtist]

Kunaki does custom vinyls too! I haven't tried it out yet so I can't speak to the quality but I might give it a shot for my next album :) They are pretty expensive though - definitely more of a premium product than CDs.

[@Kanelipulla420]

If I put my album for sale, does Kunaki take the 1,10$ + shipping automatically of the price the customer pays, or do they send me the full price and them I have to send the money to them by myself? Nice video!

[@DGtheArtist]

First you get all the money that the customer pays via PayPal (i.e. the full CD price, plus shipping), then you have to manually fulfill the order from your Kunaki account by paying Kunaki $1.10 plus shipping. It seems like you can also fund your Kunaki account in advance to avoid manually paying for each order, but I prefer to do it one at a time.

[@Kanelipulla420]

@@DGtheArtist Ok, thanks for answering!

[@unkownuser5144]

mate thanks really useful i have a queastion , if im not gonna put names from audio files its gonna be ok?

[@DGtheArtist]

I haven't tried it so I can't be 100% positive, but I think the names are only used for CD players that display the name of the song as it's playing, so it'd just show up as blank if you do that - I doubt you'd have any other issues. If you try it let me know how it turns out! (If you don't want to risk anything going wrong you could always just put the track number as a sort of filler name just to be safe)

[@aycx3571]

Fire vid bro. Just a question. All the CDs I’ve brought from kunaki are kinda pixelated, even if I use hd pics. Is that just me

[@TheBotanicalGarden]

Has any chance to sell this on Merchbar or Spotify? I maybe lost some thought if you told about it! Thanks!

[@avisionthroughchrist]

Thank you for sharing 🙏☀️

[@DGtheArtist]

Glad it helped! :D

[@noekieasmr4200]

Thank you for the video, this is amazing. I expected it to cost way more. One question though. I live in the Netherlands. Do u maybe have a rough idea of how much more that would be with the shipping or if it's even possible? Again, thanks a lot and have a good one Update: Okay I spoke too soon. I jusy looked on their website and they have a whole ass option for it which is nice. It's still a little expensive, about 7,5 bucks, but less then I expected :D Hopefully whatever shipping company is used wont mess up my order. (happens a lot here unfortunately) Though I don't know about important costs. From experience I know those always come later which can rlly make an unforeseen dent in your bank account but over I'm satisfied so we shall see

[@DGtheArtist]

Glad the video helped!! Hope the shipping works out for you :)

[@DemiGodX]

i would order from them if they offer mini cds

[@isaactovar7132]

How long does it take to Ship?

[@1-floodwaymichaeloenriquez981]

hey man! I'm from ph, how do u think will the shipping cost overseas?

[@DGtheArtist]

Hey! They have this shipping calculator on their website, this should help! kunaki.com/calculator1.asp

[@doomybaya]

Are they silver on the back? Can't really tell from the video

[@DGtheArtist]

Yes they are, sorry I just saw this!

[@322-PG]

I want to make a mixtape cd but some of the tracks are cut a few seconds in the beginning. Is that common? I already tried setting the thing up again and the audio files are fine

[@DGtheArtist]

Hmm I've never seen that happen before - maybe it's the file type you're using? Can you try using WAV files if you're not already?

[@Denisl2-f9s]

@@DGtheArtistsame thing happened to me. I tried making a mixtape cd and the last few tracks just skip 3 seconds. I use wav so idek what to do

[@thelevelbeyondhuman]

Can you use FLAC files to upload? FLAC is basically as good as WAV right or no?

[@DGtheArtist]

I haven't tried it but it should be fine too! And yeah they're both lossless so FLAC should be as good as WAV :)

[@proto_arkbit3100]

You can also just buy a USB optical disk drive and plug it into your computer and burn the music yourself onto a printable CD :3

[@F1NK0X]

The video is really good! But I’m having some troubles and wondering if you know, 2 people bought from me and haven’t received anything yet?

[@DGtheArtist]

Hey, great question! So you need to manually fund all the orders from your Kunaki account before they send them. Log in and click through to the pending orders section, and you should see an option to fund the orders that require payment.

[@booboolin6007]

What if you are in South Africa bro

[@Elytrii]

Some of my friends sell their physical music with this :D

[@DGtheArtist]

Eyyy nice! Yeah it's pretty great for up-and-coming artists :)

[@alyanahzoe]

​@@DGtheArtist can kunaki cds work on kids cd players also?

[@DGtheArtist]

@@alyanahzoe I haven't tested that personally but they should work fine, they're just like any other CDs!

[@333dae]

@@alyanahzoe If you wanna be safe make sure your CD player can read CD-R

[@tripl3a_]

boutta make a blonde and the forever story cd

[@CKMUSlC]

No way, I just made a Blonde cd on there!

[@Intheearthrn]

Do they sound good?

[@DGtheArtist]

Yeah, I'm very happy with the sound!

[@rarecyyrus8319]

How long did shipping take for you?

[@DGtheArtist]

Took about 2 days to process and 4 more days to ship the first time I ordered from them! Actually just ordered more a few days ago but they're taking longer to process this time. :/

[@Dreamzofficial_]

In the website it’s written that it costs nothing. Is it free?

[@DGtheArtist]

The virtual CDs like what I showed at 2:55 are free to set up, but you have to pay if you order any physical CDs.

[@goomy6412]

I just spent hours creating artwork and downloading files just to find out its US only 😥

[@brokenibrahim32]

noted all down

[@WeAreTheEggmen22]

Wish Kunaki had digipaks

[@TheAutisticrats]

Omg you are opening the cd case wrong lol

[@theradproductionsgroup8692]

Does it say 1.10 for 750?

[@tiller56]

1.10 each for 750

[@goodmanshealth]

nice!

[@DGtheArtist]

Thanks!

[@alanalvarez2618]

how do you convert the songs into files ?

[@Elytrii]

Audio files are audio files

[@IllGhoul]

HOW IS THOS SO CHEAP

[@realfries09]

Thats actually like WAY cheaper then I figured it would be!

[@maurovitale1137]

Estás abriendo mal la caja del cd, por eso se sale del eje superior. la mano Derecha pulgar en el medio de la parte lateral del la tapa posterior y la mano izquierda se pone el dedo índice en la parte superior derecha de la tapa frontal y el pulgar en la parte inferior derecha, tienen unas marquitas, un rayado en forma de semicírculo y ahí se abre sin que se descentre los ejes de la tapa. Nosotros que pasamos por la era de los vinilos, cassettes y CDs, sabemos esas cosas. Los viejos hombres. Nosotros aprendemos de ustedes y ustedes aprenden de nosotros. Gracias por el video. Saludos!

[@herrheynaerklarts1607]

Too bad it´s in the US. The shipping is killing me T___T

[@DGtheArtist]

Yeahhh that's pretty rough :(

[@ConfettiandCo-x6q]

Mine Is Called: UNEVELIVABLE

[@zerorez4960]

. 😑 5:15 he doesnt know how to open cds

[@WolfsDenShop]

You look like Luke Perry. I hope you've got your Solicitor's Will Ready, before the Age of 52.

[@naajihylton1337]

🔥🔥🔥

[@Nitelord_]

They stole my card info