Is your downloaded music piling up on your hard drive? Maybe you'd like to free some space on your hard drive space while still enjoying your favorite tunes. Or perhaps you've got a bunch of CDs with only one or two songs on each that you really like. Want more control over the CD burning process, consider ChiliBurner, Express Burn Plus, Nero, or Roxio Toast.
Toast is a CD and DVD authoring and media conversion software application for Mac OS X. Its name is a play on the word 'burn', a term used for the writing of information onto a disc through the use of a laser. Discs can be burned directly through Mac OS X, but Toast provides added control over the process as well as extra features such as file recovery for damaged discs and cataloging and tracking of burned disc contents.
Software - CD/DVD burning applications
ChiliBurner is the complete multifunctional but easiest-to-use burning tool.The interface of this applicant is very straightforward, which is comprised of the following four major parts, data,audio,video,copy. Just select the source you want to burn and do some setting, and then you can burn the source with fast burning speed!
Platform: Windows Price: USD 29.95
Express Burn is a cd and dvd burning program for Windows that lets you create and record audio, video and data CDs and DVDs under Windows. With Express Burn you can record discs quickly and easily by dragging the files you want onto the icon and clicking Burn. The software then does the rest, including converting the files if required. Express Burn is also the fastest CD/DVD writing program in the world using proprietary optimizing systems.
Platform: Windows 2003, XP, Vista Price: USD 38.2
ImTOO Music CD Burner is easy-to-use MP3 CD burning software and music CD burner software, which can burn music CD and burn MP3 CD from audio files like MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, M4A, AAC, AC3, OGG, etc. The music CD burner software can also burn CDs from videos such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, MOV, 3GP, ASF, RM, and so on, with great burning quality and high speed.
Platform: Windows XP, Vista Price: USD 25.95
Xilisoft MP3 CD Burner is professional and powerful MP3 CD burner software which can burn CD, burn music CD, burn MP3 CD, and burn WMA CD from almost all popular video and audio formats almost all popular video and audio formats including MPEG, WMV, ASF, AVI, MOV, 3GP, RM, MP4, MP3, MP2, WMA, WAV, AU, M4A, RA, OGG, AAC, AC3, etc.
Platform: Windows XP, Vista Price: USD 25.95
Hardware - burner driver
Burning a CD is a term used for putting data onto a writable CDROM disc. When a blank CD-R (Compact Disk - Recordable) is put into a special type of CDROM drive, the laser in the drive will burn the inside silver disk that stores information on the CD. If you want to burn CDs, you'll need a drive that says "Compact Disc Recordable" or even better "Compact Disc Rewritable" on it.
Your computer might already have a CDROM drive capable of burning discs if it was made in the last few years. If not, you can find an internal or external drive at most computer and electronics stores for around $50. External drives are easier to install because you don't have to open the system unit and mess with wires, but they cost a little more.
You will also need blank CDs, which can be purchased at office supply stores or any place that sell computers. You will see two different kinds of blank CDs. One is the CD-R and the other is CD-RW. CD-R means that you can record on the CD just once. A CD-RW (Compact Disk - Rewriteable) allows you to add to or record over music on the disc. Either one will work, though CD-RW are suggested for people who need to record over and over again on a CD, for storing data like documents. You may not want to do this with your music files. Most people burn a music CD once and leave it alone, so it's probably better to go with the cheaper CD-R's if all you plan to do is to burn music onto CDs. (For related information, see Lifetime of a CDROM Disk.)
You may already have all the software you need, if you have the latest version of Windows Media Player. If you don't already have it, this software is available for free from the Microsoft website. If you have a music CD, and you want to make a copy of it, you can start by putting the CD into your computer's CDROM drive. After loading the CD, you'll see the songs pop up in Windows Media Player. One of the buttons at the top is titled "Rip". When you press that button, it will make copies of your songs and store the music onto your computer's hard drive.
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