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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Vista CD burn
well once you have done all the easy stuff you describe above, take it to your car and tryto play it there. Your easy burn was not that easy. It won't work. Check the file size that you burned, 44 bytes. The file does not actually burn to the CD like it did with XP.
CD's don't play in my car
I have tried to burn cd's using wmp but none of the cd's will work in my car. I have tried many different combination on the options and everything. I can't find anything that works.
burning music cds
I have been trying to burn music cds.... They will play in my media player on my computer but WILL NOT play in a regular cd player.....
I talked with my computer sales person and he said to try in NTI program.... Well I tried that last night and I could not seem to do ANYTHING with that program.....
my windows media player wont calculate time
What do I do when my windows media player wont calculate the time so that I can burn the cd...
cd album art and info
I just want to ad the album art and artist information when i burn the cd, can that be done?
The album art is not on line because it is my bands cd and our art.
Its on the media player but will not burn to the disk.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!
HELP PLEASE!
Okay Im trying to copy a cd that has 28 song on it and on windows media its only letting me put 23 songs on a cd! what can i do?
Thanks SOO much!
Well, it works great for me.
Well, it works great for me. I don't know whats wrong with yours. Good luck though!
cds and mp3 burning
i have tried to burn audio cds in wmp on vista and it does not work it burns an data cd and cannot play in my car or hifi. i too have wasted so many cds!!!!!!! on my old pc with win98 it allowed me to burn audio and mp3 cds with folders for albums. now i cannot do any of this in vista, looks like i'll be still using my old pc. is there any quick easy solution to this problem??
cd won't play
Burned a cd using windows media player,it will play on laptop but not on my stereo-can anyone tell me what I did wrong?
Windows media 11
Everytime I try and copy to an audio cd Windows media 11 goes through and prepares all the tracks but then then the CD is finalised after only a few tracks have been written to CD and a message telling me to use a slower run speed appears.
I have set the run speeds as low as I am able but it makes no difference.
Is the real answer got something to do with the amount of free space on the hard drive and if so is there anther CD burner that uses less than windows
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