How to burn a CD using Windows XP and Windows Media Player

Assuming you are using Windows XP, when you burn CD using the tools that come with Windows, many times you are going to get better results than when you use Easy CD Creator. For example, when you burn a CD using the Windows Media Player, it check all the MP3 files before it even tries to burn the CD. So in the long run, this may save you from throwing away a CD that might stop in the middle of the creation of the CD because of a bad MP3 file. But then you think to yourself, the song played fine when I listen to it, so you think it was the CD that was bad and you throw the CD away, when actually it was the MP3 file it self that was bad. There are times that a MP3 file will play like there are no problems with it, but the file is in fact corrupted. When it is time to burn your CD, that is when you find out that the file was bad, this is during the process of burning the CD. The process suddenly stops on that song, which is when you know the MP3 file was bad. The process that is getting shown is one that takes a little longer to burn a CD. However, it will save you money at the end by telling you which songs are corrupted and you don’t have to throw away a CD that stopped in the middle of burning it as it can in “Easy CD Creator”. Know this is how you burn a CD off the hard Drive:

The first thing is to open the file that your music is located in, so in this case the music is located in the Temp directory.
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Now that you have the file that your music is located in opened, know it is time to transfer it to your CD.

First, you select the music by highlighting it all.

Then after it is highlighted, you right click your mouse and go down to “Copy on CD or Devices”, and click on it.

Right after you click on the “Copy on CD or Devices” you should have the Windows Media Player come up like this:

After the Windows Media Player comes up you have chooses that you have to make. You can manually drag the songs to where you want them or leave them where they are. After you figure out how you want your songs burned on your CD, you go up to the Right corner and you should see a Red Button that Says “Copy” click on it:

After you click on “Copy” it will inspect the MP3, convert the mp3 and then finally burn the song on to the CD.

When the CD is done it will eject and the Windows Media Player will say “Complete” by every song.

In the end this process take a little longer then “Easy CD Creator” but it will save you from throwing away CD that stopped in the middle of burning, so it also saves you your money.

 

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