Can You Use a DVD to Record Music?
With so many acronyms involved in computers and software, you might be confused about the difference between CD-Rs and DVD-Rs and which medium is generally used for recording music. It's not difficult to tell the difference once you get the hang of it.
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Acronyms
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The "R" at the end of those two acronyms stands for "recordable," meaning that CD-Rs are recordable CDs and DVD-Rs are recordable DVDs.
Recording MP3s
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Generally, if you want to burn a disc of music to play back on your home or car stereo, you need to burn the music onto a CD-R; using a DVD-R will result in an unplayable disc.
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Making Data Discs
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You can burn music onto a DVD-R, but only if you intend to just store that music on the disc, and not use it as a playable CD, which won't work.
How to Burn Onto a DVD-R
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Insert a DVD-R into your computer. Open your DVD burning software. Select the data disc option and then drag the music folders you want to use. Hit the "Burn" button.
Benefit
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DVD-Rs hold much more space than CD-Rs, so you can archive far more music on one.
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