Question about burning MP3s onto a CD-RW

Techno Phobia · #1 October 10th, 2005, 08:13 PM

Hello

I'm a complete techno idiot, so I was hoping someone could help me.

I have itunes, real player and AOL media player, and there are several mp3s I want to burn on to a cd. However I have no idea how to burn mp3s from itunes or real player onto one. I know it seems like a very silly question, but could someone give me a very simple to follow guide on how to do this??

Any help appreciated.

**Miz** · #2 October 11th, 2005, 01:58 AM

What operating system are you running...Win98, XP, 2000, ME, something else? If not XP, do you have any CD burning software installed? If so, which one?

XP has its own burning software which allows you to right click on a file (including mp3 files), point at Send To and "send" it to the CD writer. Once you have all files the CD can hold "sent," you can then burn them. MP3 files can be burned as data files if you're going to play them on a computer or Mp3 player. If you want to play them on a regular CD player, you'll need to burn them as audio files (so they will be converted to a format a regular CD player can use).

Techno Phobia · #3 October 13th, 2005, 09:52 PM

I'm on XP, and no I don't have any software installed.

I also want to make them play on a normal cd player.

owainpj · #4 November 4th, 2005, 01:29 PM

I have followed the (simple) instructions to burn an audio cd using iTunes - namely create a new playlist and then simply click 'burn cd' - having done that, and the CD appearing to burn properly, the cd then doesn't play in any of my audio cd players and also iTunes itself won't play it either .... (I have tried burning using both the internal CD drive on my Sony Viao and a Lacie external DVD/CD drive, the same happens on both - I am using Phillips CD-RW discs)

Fred10,000 · #5 November 5th, 2005, 09:13 PM

Hi,Not sure which burner you have. I used to have Roxio but had problems with the buffer area. Went to Nero,no problems and as mentioned in the other reply to you it burns in the same formats,ie:data and audio. Also has formats for mp3 and others which you choose. Good Luck,Fred

**Miz** · #6 November 6th, 2005, 01:21 AM

I'm pretty sure the problem with playing the resulting disks in a CD player is the CD-RW part of it. Try using a CD-R disk and see if you have better results.

Fred10,000 · #7 November 6th, 2005, 08:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Miz

I'm pretty sure the problem with playing the resulting disks in a CD player is the CD-RW part of it. Try using a CD-R disk and see if you have better results.

Techno never mentiond his system. Hope a CD-R fixes his problem. At present I don't have any burning problems,however I'll keep the CD-R disk info handy. Thanks,Fred