How to Use a Computer to Dub CDs

You can use your CD burner to make sampler CDs to play in your car or portable player, or to listen to while you're working on your computer. These instructions are general, but should work for most dubbers.

Things You'll Need

• CD-R Discs
• CD-ROM Drives
• CD-RW Burners

Instructions

1. Insert a blank CD in the recorder drawer.

2. Insert the audio CD in the CD-ROM drive.

3. Open your CD recorder application.

4. Open the File menu and select New or another command used for beginning a recording.

5. Find a window or icon with a list of tracks on the audio CD (by name or number).

6. Enter the names of numbered tracks.

7. Click on the tracks you want to copy. Choose as many as your application allows (usually by using the Shift key to select several tracks in a row or the Control key to select random tracks).

8. Select the recording speed.

9. Look for the command to start recording: probably Record, Save, or Extract to File.

Tips & Warnings

• If your CD recorder application lists tracks by number instead of name, you can copy and paste titles from the All Music Guide. (See Related Sites.)

• Most applications bundled with CD burners allow direct dubbing from CD to CD. Some require you to copy tracks to the hard disk first.

• If you hear clicks and pops or experience other recording difficulties, try recording at a different speed.

• Use CD-R discs, not CD-RW, for audio recording.

• If your recorded disc doesn't work on a particular player, try another brand of disc or another disc color.

• Expect the copy to sound inferior to the original, even if the data is an exact copy.