The first laptop I bought had a DVD burner which came with support for LightScribe, which required discs with a special coating. You designed a cover, put the disc in your drive upside down and it would burn the image into the disc. You could only do grayscale as far as I know, but I still thought it was pretty neat at the time.

Those need special blank cd’s

It's called cdimage
And it worked for me: https://lemmy.world/post/30813500

I am linking through lemmy.world because SDF isn't doing all too well.

there is very little support for lemmy at sdf. one of the nodes has had a hardware failure and will need to be replaced. the nodes are also in need of new fans and larger disks, but that requires support.

I had one of those "LightScribe" burners. I think I only used it a couple of times because the media was much more expensive than standard CD-R and I didn't care enough to get good at it. It was just a slow extra step when I'm trying to burn a quick cd before I head to the bus stop in the morning.

Funnily, burning the lightscribe cd was faster than the first mp3 player I had. My first mp3 player was a Creative something or other with 32mb of storage. Adding the ~15 songs you could fit on it took fucking donkey's years.