How to burn/record

[crellin]

Hello, I have a cd that I am playing through my modem/tower and I wonder how to burn the music to a cd.

I us CDburnerxp to burn from my music that I have loaded to to files. I am not sure if there is a way to do this, but if so would appreciated instructions.

btw, I converted the music to wave through audacity converter.

Thanks

[kozikowski]

If you're on a relatively modern Windows machine, you should be able to use Windows Media to Author, Arrange the music, and Burn the CD. Older Windows Media programs wouldn't burn.

Koz

[crellin]

Thanks

[crellin]

Another question along the same line.

If i play a cd from my external player and use audacity's converter to wave and let it play and convert all of the songs, maybe at least fifteen songs and when the last song is done, I export and save it. Will it convert all the files without stopping.

I tried this and when I when to my burner it it only show one song which was the first song. I did not think fast enough to try to burn the one song that showed and see if had the rest of the songs behind it. I deleted the file to quickly,

I hope this makes some sense

Thanks

[billw58]

Don't know why you're playing the CD in an external burner when you should be able to just rip the tracks off the CD.

Anyway, this is analogous to playing an LP and recording it - you need to split the resulting recording into separate files for burning onto CD..

See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... ate_tracks

-- Bill

[waxcylinder]

Don't know why you're playing the CD in an external burner when you should be able to just rip the tracks off the CD.

The one circumstance that will need you to record a CD rather than rip it is if you have a CD which has the wretched copy protection on it. You will not even be able to play such a CD on your computer - you will need an external CD player/deck.

WC

[crellin]

Thanks for you replies.

[RODALCO]

The one circumstance that will need you to record a CD rather than rip it is if you have a CD which has the wretched copy protection on it. You will not even be able to play such a CD on your computer - you will need an external CD player/deck.

The way I get around that is play the cd as normal on a cd player.
Then record it to reel to reel tape.
Play the tape back into record mode in Audacity.
Save in WAV format and the copy is made in Audacity.
make file name
Burn the track on a cd along with other tracks.

[waxcylinder]

Rodalco,

you don't need the tape stage of the process.

If you can plug your reel-to-reel into your computer and record ok, then you should also be able to plug the outputs of your CD player into your PC and record directly into Audacity. The extra step will the tape will only introduce noise into the signal.

I was vry lucky when I ripped my CDs into iTunes as I only found one that had the copy protection. This one I recordd direct from my CD deck into my PC=>Audacity - worked a treat. I also burned myslf a new copy of the CD without the copy protection!

WC