How to burn an Audio CD
Fri, 01/19/2007 - 21:01 — George
This is the third and final tutorial of the audio CD series. In this tutorial we will show you how to burn an audio CD using Windows Media Player 11. As you will see, burning audio CD's in Windows Vista is a very quick and simple task.
If you want to burn your music to a CD, first you should enter a blank CD in your CD/DVD-RW drive. After a short while, Windows Vista will launch the “AutoPlay” window. Select “Burn an audio CD using Windows Media Player” and wait for Windows Media Player to launch.
Now, you have to select the music you want to burn on the CD. On the left side of the Windows Media Player window, click on “Library”. You will see a list of “Primary Views”. Now you can click on the “Artist” button and select songs played by a specific artist or you can click on the “Album” button to burn songs from a specific album and so on.
If you want to add all songs of a certain artist then select the artist, right click on him and then select “Add to Burn List”. Also, you can drag and drop any song, album, etc to the burn list from the right side of the Windows Media Player window.
The size of audio CD’s is not measured in megabytes. It is measured in minutes of played music. Every time you add a track to your audio CD, Windows Media Player will calculate the remaining time. Under the disc on the right side of the screen you will notice a small blue bar that is filling up with each new song you add to the disc. You can add tracks until that bar gets filled.
When you have finished adding songs to your disc, click on the “Start Burn” button from the lower right corner of Media Player. The burning process will start and when it is finished the CD will automatically be ejected from the CD/DVD-RW drive.
Related articles:
How to play an audio CD in Windows Vista
How to rip music from an audio CD in Windows Vista
Windows Media Player 11
Windows Media Player 11 Keyboard shortcuts
How to add album art and update album information
How to burn CDs and DVDs in Windows Vista
How to burn a Video DVD using Windows DVD Maker
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Comments
No Gaps in Music?
I have burned a CD and it has the two second gap between songs. What do I need to do to have no gaps between songs as there are albums that should have no gaps? Thanks for your response.
not possible with WMP
I looked through the burning options of WMP but I didn't find anything. You could try to use Nero for burning CD's. Nero has the "remove pause between track" option.
Poor cd playback?
I have tried several times to burn a cd using wmp 11 on Vista. The playback on my stereo is terrible each time, there are pauses, jumps, and skips through every song. I have tried changing the settings on wmp with no success. Should I be using a specific brand of CD? This never mattered before when I had wmp 10 on XP.
Better brand
Try using a better brand of CD's. It might help.
Also, you might want to lower the speed of burning the CD's. This might help as well.
Try slowing down the burning
Try slowing down the burning speed considerably. Another trick I use is to let wmp 'rest' before actual burning. ( I go make a cup of coffee then set it to burn then go hav the coffee. ~ No other programs running at the time and processes shut down as much as possible is always required for windows to burn anything properly.) In other words, do nothing while the burning process is going on.)
Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've used Sony, Dynex, and Maxell brand CD's already. They are all equally bad when I try to play the cd's in my cd player. I have the speed set to the lowest possible speed, it takes nearly 30 minutes to burn one cd, LOL. If I try to burn them any faster than that, the cd's won't play at all. I don't understand what the problem could be. Is there a different program I might download and use instead that would be better?
Burning audio CD's
Of course you can try another burning application. Personally I recommend Nero Burning Rom - but this is a commercial solution.
A good freeware application is BurnAware Free Edition.
WMP 11
I followed the instructions for an AUDIO CD and got a DATA CD instead.
This version of WMP sucks, no doubt about it.
All automatic, I hate when software thinks for me, then does it wrong!!!
I'm just going to assume microslut messed it up on purpose in order to help other vendors sell burning software.
I'm not pleased with WMP-11 at all.
I'll try the free version mentioned above, and maybe I can uninstall 11 and reinstall 10, but my hunch is, this big brother type software won't "allow" me to do that. And either the free one mentioned will work or I'll find a suitable one that will, I have no hope for 11 at all for now.
format
how do i format the cd to play in my car or regular radio not an mp3 player
Hi There, I have a several
Hi There,
I have a several CD coasters now. I have tried and failed burning music CDs on WMP 11 via Vista. It burns completed but the audio CDs cannot play at all - on anything. It burns erroneous CDs... very frustrating.
Any ideas? Codecs?
Thanking you kindly in advance!
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