How To Burn A Cd Using Windows 7

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How to create, or burn a DVD or CD disc using Windows Media.

Follow this process to burn a DVD or CD disc using the Windows Media® Player.

Important: Burning and playback of Blu-ray Disc® media is not supported in Windows Media Player.

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This procedure explains how to use the Windows Media Actor to burn data to a DVD or CD disc. For other types of discs, such as a DVD-Video disc or an sound CD, you will need to utilise a unlike programme or feature of Windows.
Not all computers accept a writeable optical drive. To see if your computer has a writeable optical drive, bank check the specifications. Manuals are posted on your model support page.
Because Windows Media Actor does not back up the CD-Text standard, the disc that you burn volition non include the media data from the original files. This means that if you fire an audio disc containing songs from multiple sources and y'all try to play that disc on another computer, the other computer may non be able to display the names of the songs or artists.
If y'all want to make a standard music CD that will play in about any CD player, cull the Sound CD option, if you lot want to make a disc that tin can hold several hours of music (equally opposed to an audio CD that only holds nearly 80 minutes of music), cull the Data CD or DVD option.
You tin likewise add picture and video files to data discs. If yous want the ability to erase the disc afterward and add together new files to it use a CD-RW, DVD-RW or DVD+RW disc.
If needed, follow this procedure to erase a Rewritable disc (CD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RW) before starting the procedures beneath.

Place a recordable disc in the optical bulldoze of your computer.
NOTE: The post-obit full sized (12cm) recordable discs tin be used:
- CD-R
- CD-RW
- DVD+R
- DVD+R DL
- DVD+RW
- DVD-R
- DVD-RW
In the AutoPlay window, click Burn an sound CD using Windows Media Role player.
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- If the AutoPlay window does not appear, click Get-go, click Computer, and and so double-click the optical disc drive containing the recordable disc.
- In step ii you will be presented with two dissimilar options for burning a disc: Sound CD or Information CD or DVD. Because you lot chose to burn a disc using Windows Media Player, both methods will let you to drag and driblet the desired files to the recordable disc. Select the method almost advisable for your needs.
1. In the Windows Media Player window, click the Burn tab.
2. On the Burn tab, click the Burn options button, and then click to select either Audio CD or Data CD or DVD.
3. Browse to the items in the Library that you lot want to burn to the audio CD and, to create a fire list, drag items from the details pane (the pane in the center of the window) to the listing pane (the pane on the right side of the window).
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  - To change the social club of the songs in the Fire listing, drag and drop a song up or downwardly in the listing.
  - To remove a vocal from the Burn list, right-click the song then click Remove from list.
  - You can continue to add music tracks up to the point at which the media icon shows it is full.
4. When the media icon shows it is full or the Burn list contains all the tracks yous want it to incorporate, click the Start burn button.