This section describes how to burn or record MP3 music files as audio tacks to audio CD (Compact Disk Digital Audio or CD-DA) with Windows Media Player.
When you are ready to burn or record MP3 music files as audio tracks on a blank recordable CD
to make an audio CD, follow this tutorial:
1. Start Windows Media Player.
2. Click the Burn tab. You may get a blank burn list.
3. Use the drop down list above the burn list window
to select the MP3 must album you have created: Herong First Album.
Windows Media Player will populate the burn list with all music files
from this album:
4. Look at the burn list. Each music is selected to be burned to the
audio CD with a status of "Ready to burn". The summary is reported below the
burn list: "10 Item(s), Total Time: 48 Minutes".
5. Double check to make sure you have a blank CD in the CD drive.
The write speed should be 4X ensure best burning quantity.
6. Windows Media Player starts a two-step to finish burning the CD.
First it converts all MP3 files to audio tracks
according to the CD-DA specifications in memory. Then it burns all audio tracks
to the CD. The whole process took about less than 10 minutes.
I was surprised by this speed. I thought that it would take 15 minutes to finish,
because the burning speed should be only 4 times faster than play time.
48 minutes of music would take 12 minutes to burn. I guess Windows Media Player
ignored my write speed setting.
I checked the finished audio CD. I worked perfectly on a regular CD player.
