How to Burn Music to a CD

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Charles Stewart Jr, and I'm going to show you how to burn music to a music CD. First you want to go out and buy some CD-Rs. Basically these are CDs that are recordable so that you can put them in your computer and burn them as you know, either storage or music CDs. Nowadays pretty much all computers have at least a CD burner in them. So, it's safe to say that you have one. If you don't, you want to make sure that you do have one and you can go out and buy one, an external one to plug in your USB if you don't have one. But let's say you've got one in your computer. You basically just you know open up your computer, put in your CD-R, and I'm going to use iTunes because iPods are pretty much dominating the market and iTunes is similar to other music programs, so I'm just going to show you how to burn a CD using iTunes. So we've got it open and iTunes is similar, it's pretty much the same thing with Windows and Macs, so it really doesn't matter which operating system you're using because these will all apply to both. I've gone ahead and I've created a playlist and dragged all the songs that I want to be on my CD, for this I'm doing old eighties metal bands. And again, when you do it it'll show you the time and usually you can only fit seventy-four minutes on a regular CD, so, that's about an hour and fourteen minutes. So you want to make sure, right now I'm a little bit over, I'm an hour and fourteen minutes and six seconds, so I don't really want to push it. So I'll probably delete one of my songs, 'cause it'll try to span it over a bunch of CDs. So now I've got fifteen songs. And it's pretty much ready to go so, I've selected my playlist, and I've got all the songs up in the order that I want them. If you want it in a different order you can grab them and move them around. But I'm good with that. So, then you're just going to go down here to the burn disc button and just hit burn disc. iTunes is going to start looking at it to make sure it's good to go, and now it's going to start burning. And then once it's done iTunes will let you know and you can eject it and take it to your car or take it to a party or wherever you're going with it, and you've got your music CD."