Burning Music to a Cd
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BURNING MUSIC TO A CD You have songs saved on your computer, and, yes, you can sit at your computer and listen to those songs. But wouldn’t you rather take those songs with you—perhaps in the car? Now you can! Yes, you can “burn” songs from your computer onto a blank CD that you can then play on your home or car stereo. The following assumes you already have songs saved in the Music Library on your Windows 7 computer (if not, see the tip sheet on ‘Ripping Music from a CD’ for instructions on copying music from a CD to a computer). Follow the steps outlined below to create a CD that you can play on your home or car stereo using the Windows Media Player. 1) Place a blank CD‐R in your disc drive (note: blank CDs cost anywhere from 20 to 35 cents apiece depending on how many you buy). 2) A window will open asking you if you want to either burn an audio CD or burn files to a disc. Click on “Burn an Audio CD”. 3) Windows Media Player will open. Click one of the three options below the heading “Music” to display the items in you Music Library. At this point you have two options: you can either make a copy of an entire CD that you have saved on your computer, or you can make a mix CD that contains specific songs that you select from the various albums you have saved on your computer. For example, if you have a copy of Abbey Road by the Beatles, you could simply copy that entire album to a CD, or, conversely, you could make a mix of all your favorites oldies by selecting songs from a handful of the albums saved to your computer. © 2011 Monroe County Public Library ‐ For Training Purposes Only ‐ Not For Sale or Distribution Outside of MCPL Page 1 If you want to copy a single album to a CD, continue on to Step 4. If you want to make a mix CD, skip to Step 4) First, let’s assume that you selected the “Album” option in Step 3. Take a look at Windows Media Player. You should see all of the albums in your Music Library displayed. You will likely see an image of the album art. Below that you will see the name of the album and the artist. To the right of this you will see an empty space containing the words “Drag items here to create a burn list”. Click and drag the album you want to copy to this space. When you release the mouse button, you should see all of the tracks on the album you selected listed. You’re now ready to burn your songs to your blank disc. Skip to Step 8. 5) Double‐click on the first album from which you want to include songs on your mix to display all of the songs on that disc. To the right of this you will see an empty space containing the words “Drag items here to create a burn list”. Click and drag the song(s) you want to include on your mix to this space. 6) To get back to your list of albums, simply click the “Album” on the left side of the Windows Media Player window (just like you did in Step 3) or use the “Back” button in the top left. Add the rest of the songs you want to include. Note: a CD can only hold 79 ½ minutes of music; as such, be sure to keep track of the remaining free time on your © 2011 Monroe County Public Library ‐ For Training Purposes Only ‐ Not For Sale or Distribution Outside of MCPL Page 2 disc—which you can do via the information displayed near the top right corner of the window. 7) Now that you have the songs you want to include on your Burn List, you may want to adjust the song order. To adjust the order of your songs, simply click and drag the songs up or down the list until you have them in the order you want. You’re now ready to burn the songs to your blank disc. 8) Above the list of songs, find the button labeled “Start burn” and click it to start the burn. 9) The burn will begin. You can track progress in the top right corner of the window. 10) When the burn completes, your computer will eject the disc. If you want to burn another copy of the same disc, repeat Step 8. If you want to save the burn list for future use, click the dropdown menu icon just below the ‘Sync’ tab in the top‐right corner of the window and choose “Save list as…”. You’ll be able to access it later via your Playlists, which can be accessed via the menu along the left side of the menu. When you’re done, click the “Clear list” button near the top right corner of the window and close Windows Media Player. © 2011 Monroe County Public Library ‐ For Training Purposes Only ‐ Not For Sale or Distribution Outside of MCPL Page 3 .