Your Computer’s CD Burner
Posted on August 20, 2008 at 4:12 am by Computer Geek
Years ago if you wanted to own a band’s CD, you had to buy it in a record store or purchase it online and with the cost around $10, it adds up. If you were like me, you couldn’t afford to buy all the CD’s you wanted so you just waited for them to be played on the radio.
Then came those file sharing sites like Napster that could get you all those songs you wanted and it didn’t cost you a thing. You just downloaded it to your hard drive and transferred the songs to an MP3 player.
Now if you want to transfer all those songs to a CD so you could listen to them in your car, you only need one thing - a CD burner. Every computer comes with one now.
A CD burner comes in two formats, an external drive and an internal drive. Most people are probably familiar with the internal drives that connect to you CPU and is housed in your computer tower. The external drive on the other hand is not connected to the CPU and plugs in to your computer via a USB port.
You may think you can only burn songs from your hard drive to your CD but this isn’t true. Your CD burner will copy another CD also. If your friend has a CD you’ve been wanting, just borrow it and copy their CD to yours. What a great technology!
For a CD burner to work, you need software to run it. Most computers will come with software like Windows Media Player but if you want good quality software, you can buy Nero or Roxio which burns just the same as your free Windows Media player but they just offer more options and flexibility.
If you prefer to stick with the free options, you can download free burner software from the Internet. Some good free options to look for are Deep Burner and ISO Recorder.
You might think a CD burner is only capable of copying the songs you downloaded but you can also copy other files. You can just as easily burn other files, videos, mp3s, pictures, etc. Just think how we ever managed to live without this great technology.
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