Steps to Burn MP3 Files as Audio Tacks

This section describes steps involved to burn MP3 music files as audio tracks on an audio CD.

Other chapter of this book described how to rip off audio tracks from an audio CD and convert them into MP3 music files. Can we reverse the process to burn MP3 music files as audio track to an audio CD? The answer is yes.

Note that burning MP3 files to audio CD is different that burning MP3 files to a MP3 CD. Audio CD can be played on regular CD players, but MP3 CD can only be played on MP3 players.

The main steps involved in burning MP3 files to an audio CD are:

1. Prepare MP3 music files - Group your MP3 files into a folder. Limit the total play time to be less than 80 minutes.

2. Check the CD drive - Make sure your CD drive is a CD Recorder or DVD Recorder.

3. Get a blank CD - Make sure your blank CD is "Compact Disk Recordable or CD-R" with 80 Minutes capacity.

4. Get an audio CD burner software - Windows Media Player Version 10 is a perfect software to burn audio CD.

See other sections to details.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Format

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Players

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Rip Music

 WAV Audio File Format

 MP3, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, Encoding Format

Burning MP3 Music to Audio CD

Steps to Burn MP3 Files as Audio Tacks

 Creating Your Own Album

 Adding MP3 Folder to Windows Media Player Library

 Windows Media Player Settings

 Burning MP3 Music to Audio CD

 Windows Sound Recorder

 ISO 9660 Standard for Data CD

 Recording Data on CD

 VCD (Video CD) Standard

 DVD (Digital Video Disc) Standard Format

 TOC (Table Of Contents) on CDs

 IsoBuster - A Nice CD GUI Tool

 MPlayer - The Movie Player

 vStrip - Rip and Manipulate DVD VOB Files

 mpgtx - Manipulating MPEG Files

 CD/DVD - File Name Extension and Format Types

 References

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