How to Buy Blank CDs

Blank CDs cost anywhere from 10 cents to more than $1 apiece. The kind you buy depends on your equipment and what you want to do.

Things You'll Need

  • Computer manual
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Instructions

    • 1

      Check your computer manual to see if your CD burner is a CD-R (recordable) or a CD-RW (rewritable). Recordable discs can be used only once, but rewritable discs can be used over and over.

    • 2

      Keep in mind that blank CD-Rs will work in a CD-RW burner, but CD-RWs won't work in a CD-R burner.

    • 3

      Buy blank CDs with gold-tone on the bottom to record archival material, such as family photographs or financial records.

    • 4

      Get less-expensive green-toned CDs if you're making everyday copies of documents, photos, and music.

    • 5

      Buy CD-Rs (not CD-RWs) if you're recording music to be played on a portable or car stereo. Choose blank CDs labeled "Music," "Digital Audio" or "DA" if your CD burner is part of your system.

Tips & Warnings

  • Blank CDs labeled "Music" cost more, as a portion of the price goes to recording artists as royalties. They are the only CDs that work in stereo-component CD burners.

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Comments

  • manet Jun 11, 2007
    The easiest way. Just peel it off slowly. It works for me. Try it for yourself :)
  • manet Jun 11, 2007
    The easiest way. Just peel it off slowly. It works for me. Try it for yourself :)
  • Nov 22, 2005
    Try spraying a little WD-40 (or generic equivalent) on a soft cloth onto the CD case. Rub lightly and sticky residue comes right off.
  • Nov 22, 2005
    Try spraying a little WD-40 (or generic equivalent) on a soft cloth onto the CD case. Rub lightly and sticky residue comes right off.
  • Nov 22, 2005
    Here are some things that you do not do to a CD: Do not breathe on a CD and then wipe it off if it has smudges. It will make it worse! Do not wipe a CD off with water and a paper towel! This doesn't work! Do not rip a CD out of the CD case like a crazed chimp looking for bananas! Be very careful when taking it out of the case!

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