How to Burn an Audio CD with Windows Media Player

How to Burn an Audio CD with Windows Media Player​

By: David493


Table of Contents

1. Introduction and Background Info

2. What You Will Need

3. Burning the CD

Introduction​

Audio CD's are played with CD players, which plays music when you insert and play one. Now record company's product CD's with most of the time one artist per CD. An example would be Aerosmith's Greatest Hits. During my time I have never seen a record company produce a CD with multiple artists. These are called Mixed CD's by most people because they have different artists. They are usually burned.

What You Will Need​

You will need the following:

1. Blank Audio CD
You have to burn the music somewhere, make sure its an audio CD.

2. The .mp3 files
These are almost as important as the CD, these are what you are going to be listening to. You can get these from CD's the you ripped music from. Ripped means, extracting music from the CD and saving it on the Hard Drive.

3. Windows Media Player
This software comes free on all windows OS. There are other programs to use, but I am more assimilated with this one, and this is more commonly used. You can also download it on microsoft.com

4. CD ROM Drive that can Burn CDs
If your computer is fairly new, like in the last 4 or 5 years, I'd bet my right nut it has it.

Note, there are illegal ways to get the .mp3 files, which I'm not going to mention, but they still work as long as you get the .mp3 files.

Burning The CD​

Open Windows Media Player, something like this should show up.



On the top tab, it should say burn, click that.

Now this will come up.



On mine, in the bar area to the right, that's my burn list. On mine, the huge area that's not my burn list, is my Music Library. Some versions of Windows Media Player might be a little different, but mine has the library by the burn list.

Now I have to Drag and Drop the files from my library into my Burn List. Once your burn list is done it should be something like this (burn list should have songs in it, mine are just examples, the burn list would show the name of the song).



As you can see, my Burn list is full of music now. On some versions, you can open up Windows Explored (Not internet explorer, the one where you can view files i.e. My computer) and you can drag the file onto the list.

Then you click burn, and it will show the progress of the burn. When it's done, mine has the CD pop out of the Drive. Hope this was helpful.

Can't believe I forgot that, Thanks Daily.



NOTE: I KNOW I POSTED THIS BEFORE, BUT I COMPLETELY MESSED UP THE TITLE, INSTEAD OF WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER, LIKE WHAT IS PRESENT IN THIS TITLE, I PUT WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER WHICH IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PROGRAM, IF THIS IS AGAINST ANYTHING THAN PLEASE LOCK THIS.

 

Nice content, and good easy-to-read colours. In your 'what you need' section though... try adding bullets so it looks cleaner and has a slighter better format. Other than that, good work, 7/10.

 

To add on to what Rawr said, you should also avoid using certain colors. Yes colors are good, but you should try to stay away from colors such as dark blues and purples, as it is sometimes hard for people to read, seeing as it blends in with the background a little more. So other than those colors and the structure (as Rawr said), it's fairly good.

Keep it up.

 

Thanks for feedback, one of my non recognized guides.

 

8/10, good guide
try to keep to 1 text color

 

Would just like to add that you can burn .wma and .wav files on an audio CD as well as .mp3's.

 

Nice ... However this takes longer than nero or any other burner . Also quite obvious , but very detailed !

 

9/10, This Helped Me Loadz,