For me buying a laptop was the best decision I have ever made, using it at college was even cooler but then there was always that one thing I couldn’t figure out about my machine…How to burn music to a disc. I bought countless empty discs to write music on but because I didn’t know how to navigate around the Nero system I ended up with countless discs containing the same music. Here’s a how to ‘burn music to a disc’
- Before you burn music you need to know that some CD players cannot play CD-RWs, use CD-R discs to burn Audio CDs.
You need to have Nero StartSmart started
- Click the burn audio menu icon.
- The burn audio CD screen is displayed.
- Select the Audio CD disc type.
- The Burn Audio CD screen is displayed. Burn Audio CD screen
- If you want to include a CD title, enter a name in the Title (CD-Text) input field (e.g. My Favorite Music).
- If you want to include an artist, enter a name in the Artist (CD Text) input field (e.g.Miscellaneous).
- Select a drive in the Target Drive drop-down menu (e.g. F:).
- Click the Add button.
- A browser window opens.
- Select a folder in which the audio files which are to be burned are located (e.g. the My Music folder).
- The folder opens and the audio files are displayed.
- If you want to select several audio files at one time, click, for example, Track 1. Then press the Shift-key and keep it pressed while you click Track 14.
- The audio files from Track 1 to Track 14 are selected.
- Click the Open button.
- The selected audio files are listed in the Burn Audio CD screen. A capacity bar at the bottom of the screen indicates the entire length of the music files (in minutes) which are to be burned on the CD.
- Burn Audio CD with Audio Files screen
10. Select the audio file(s) you want to remove (e.g. Track 3) and click the Delete button.
- The selected audio file is removed from the list.
11. Click the Burn button.
- A dialog box opens and asks you to insert a blank recordable CD into a drive.
12. Insert a blank CD into the selected drive (e.g. F:) and click the Load button.
- The burn process starts. A progress bar in the bottom area of the screen indicates the burn process. When the burn process has finished, a dialog box opens.
13. Click the OK button.
- You have burned audio files from your hard drive to an Audio CD.
After using the above easy to follow steps you should be able to burn music into a CD with no hassles.