How to Burn a CD on an iBook

Burn a CD on an iBook with a Combo drive.

Many models of Apple's iBook laptop shipped with Combo drives, which are optical drives capable of burning CDs. You need no special software to burn a CD on an iBook: the Mac OS X operating system provides all the tools necessary to create both data and music CDs. Use the OS X system software to burn a data CD; use the built-in iTunes program to burn audio or MP3 discs.

Instructions

Music CD

1. Hold your blank CD-R or CD-RW disc next to the optical slot drive on the right-hand side of your iBook. Insert the disc into the drive until it catches and the drive pulls it in the rest of the way.

2. Start iTunes. Click a playlist in the left-hand panel of the iTunes screen.

3. Click the "Burn Disc" button in the bottom-right corner of the iTunes screen. The "Burn Settings" window opens.

4. Click "Audio CD" or "MP3 CD," depending which type you want to burn. Click "Burn" to burn a music CD on your iBook.

Data CD

1. Insert a blank disc into the optical drive on the right-hand side of your iBook. A new dialog window opens.

2. Type a disc title into the text box. Double-click the disc's icon on your iBook desktop to open it in Finder.

3. Click the Finder icon in your dock to open another Finder window. Navigate to the data files you're burning.

4. Drag and drop the files from the Finder window to the blank disc window. Click "Burn Disc."

Tips & Warnings

• Click the "Use Sound Check" box to normalize on an audio CD; this causes all of the songs to have the same volume level. To change the amount of time between songs, adjust the "Gap Between Songs" setting.

• To use only one Finder window when burning a data disc, drag and drop files from the main panel on the right-hand side to the blank disc icon in the left-hand panel.

References

• Apple; iBook G4 - Getting Started; 2004

Resources

• Apple: iBook Support