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Isn't Lightscribe on the other side of the disc?

I've not seen lightscribe discs for sale for years - are they still
made? And, although I made sure to get a lightscribe-capable drive last
time I bought one (the external one for this machine), I've never loaded
any special softwa presumably you need to do so to design (and burn?)
the labels. (You say they get darker the more times you burn them: does
that mean that that side of the discs have an absolute start point the
burner can detect, so you _can_ burn them a second and subsequent time,
and they line up? And if that's true - and sounds as if it should be -
then presumably _that_ part of the burn _would_ be more effective if
done at a slower speed.)

I used Lightscribe a fair amount for a more or less personal music cd of
myself playing guitar. Was nice could give frinds etc. a copy of the
disk that looked professional, e.g. in a case with cover etc. and a disk
looked store bought.

VERY HARD to find any Lightscribe disks anymore. I liked them and still
have a couple drives with burn them. Note you had to turn them over to
burn the image side and Yes it took awhile, like 20 Min.

Did you need special software to both design and burn the "label"?

Yes you did. You could download a very simple program from the
Lightscribe place would do a basic design or use something like
SureThing CD Labeler which offered a lot more versatility though I did
find some things confusing using it.