hearing what you are recording and burning a cd

[luis]

i have windows xp and windows media player and i am using audacity 1.2.6. i am trying to record my cassette music.
i cant hear it when it is being recorded,but it does record because when i disconnect the usb cable and hit the play
button in the audacity window i can hear it play back and it is saved as a wav microsoft file.i have the file but i dont
know how to burn the music to a cd.

please help me

[steve]

i am trying to record my cassette music.
i cant hear it when it is being recorded,but it does record because when i disconnect the usb cable and hit the play
button in the audacity window i can hear it play back

To be able to hear it while it is being recorded, you need to go into Audacity Preferences (Edit menu) and in the "Audio I/O" tab, select your computer sound card as the playback device, and also enable "software playthrough". There will be a small delay between the sound being recorded and being played back (typically about 1/2 a second) but that should not pose a problem for you.

When you Export your audio from Audacity, Export as "16 bit 44100Hz Microsoft PCM WAV (stereo)" (this is also set in Preferences).

You will then need to use a CD burning program to burn the WAV files to CD. There are many programs that will do this - I use and like Nero (any version). Make sure that you tell the software to make an "Audio CD" and not a "Data CD".