Cd burning guide

I presume your here becasue you want to burn data on to CD’s, so that you can listen to music, and or back up that vital information.

Let’s start by looking at the CD’s as part of the cd burning guide.

You have CD-R’s, these can be written on to once and read many times.

CD-RW’s are re-writeable CD’s, which as the name suggests, can be written on to again and again, the way floppies can.

When buying CD-R (W)’s check which speed you are buying, as the speed shows how fast they can be written on, assuming your drive is that fast or slow, what ever the case maybe.

On my system, burning a CD using a cd at 4x takes around 20 minutes and 40x takes about, 2-3 minutes. When shopping for drives you will see numbers often printed on them saying 52x 24x and 52x, these are simply write, re-write and read speeds. This shows how much data can be written in a certain time.

If you are using Microsoft Windows XP you have some basic CD writing capabilities built in, drag the files which you want written to the CD-RW drive in My Computer, and follow the on screen instructions.

To burn music CD’s is different and you must be aware of copyrights etc.

There are several programs around which are useful and often free, but generally unnecessary if you have Nero.

Nero is software, which makes CD burning very easy, and has some great support. If you want Music CD’s to play in your audio equipment, you will have to convert your music file into a .wav file. We will not discuss this in great detail in this cd burning guide, as I want to keep this article simple.

You can tell what a file is by right clicking the file and clicking properties, most music files nowadays will be mp3’s. An mp3 is just a music file with a particular compression.

You will need an mp3 - .wav converter, these can be found across the net. Burn these in the normal way to your CD’s and they should work in most audio equipment.

Burning music CD’s in Nero is even easier. Open Nero in the normal way and a wizard should pop up asking what type of CD you wish to burn, if this doesn’t occur go to file / new and the wizard should appear to help you.

After selecting music, it’s a simple case of dragging files over to the CD window and hitting the write button.

There is much more to be done with CD’s such as dual music and file CD’s, which can be handy if you’re transferring a file to a friend.

You can burn some music to it as well and listen to it in your car on the way there. There is also VCD’s, which stands for Video CD. These can normally be watched on DVD players but some may request you have the correct format, such as pal 50Hz and 25 fps. I believe this can also be done in Nero.

Video CD’s can be useful in storing home movies. A CD life will range, but on average if kept properly could do 70 years+. They can also work as interesting Christmas and birthday gifts as they are cheap to post.

Do a serch in Google for nero, many good sites are selling this software.

That is all, for my cd burning guide.

Happy ripping…

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