How to Download Music Onto a CD
Music that's downloaded to a computer can only be of so much use to a listener. The listener can play the music through headphones and monitor speakers or channel it through an entertainment center using a wireless network, but the songs are only available at home. If you're a listener who wants to take songs with you on a long drive, then you can easily burn your playlist to a disc so that you can listen to it in your car's CD player.
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Instructions
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Insert the blank CD to which you want to burn the music into the disc drive and a dialogue box will appear.
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Click on "Burn files to disc" in Windows operating systems and click on the similar CD burning command in Mac operating systems.
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Enter a name for the disc. You'll have to name the CD in both Windows and Mac operating systems.
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Indicate which format you want to use for the CD. In Windows, click on "Show formatting options" and then click on "Mastered," and in Mac operating systems, click on "Standard (HFS+/ISO 9660)," if you want to listen to the songs on Mac computers and computers with other operating systems; "iTunes (Audio CD)," if you want to play the CD in any audio disc player; or "MP3 (9660)," if you want to use it for MP3 players and computers without Mac operating systems.
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Click on "Next" in Windows to format the CD and click on "Prepare" in Mac operating systems. Once the disc is formatted, you can move songs to it and burn the CD.
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Open the window of the blank disc and then open the folder that contains the music you want on the disc.
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Click on the files you want to burn to highlight them and then drag them over to the blank disc window.
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Arrange the files in the order in which you'd like to listen to them and click on the CD burning command and allow the burn to complete. Once the burn is done, play the CD to ensure that the procedure was done correctly.
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References
- Mac OS 9: How to Burn a CD and Choose a Format
- Windows Help and Support | Format a CD or DVD
