5 Must Know Tips for Burning CD's

Burning music CD's these days is so common; everyone does it. What you don't know is that a lot of CD-R's are wasted because the people who are burning the CD's don't know how to do it correctly. In this article you will learn 5 things that are important to know before attempting to burn music CD's.

- Label the music that you're going to burn before burning it.
Labeling your music before burning it is a very good idea, especially if you plan to play that CD in another computer or if you plan to play it in a CD player that will show the songs name and artist on a small screen for you to see. It's very easy to label the music, all you have to do is right click on the name of the song, artist, or anything else and hit Edit.

- Use Windows Media Player
If you currently use another player besides Windows Media Player to burn your music, then it's time to go back to it. Now Windows Media Player is better than ever; it's had so many features added these last few years. Using WMP will allow you to do so many things with your files; those things include, editing album information, messing around with the order in which you'll burn your music, and it will even allow you to set the speed at which you would like to burn your music.

- Don't burn as regular files, make sure you're burning audio files.
Sometimes when a CD-R is first inserted into a computer a autoplay screen comes up allowing you to open the blank CD folder. If you open this and then simply copy your music files from MyMusic to the folder you will not be able to play that in anything else other than a computer. Make sure to use a burning program and to burn the music in audio files, not just regular files.

- Use CD-RW's if you have some instead of regular CD-R's.
This is a very good tip for everyone! If you have the ability to purchase CD-RW's instead of regular CD-R's, then go ahead and do it to ensure that you will not waste a CD-R if for some reason you make a mistake throughout the burning process. A CD-RW will let you erase what you've put on it and then add other stuff, as opposed to a regular CD-R which becomes locked after you write anything to it.

- Don't run too many programs to prevent a computer freeze.
If you are going to be burning a music CD try to not have more than 3 windows or 2 big programs open. This will help avoid errors from occurring and it will also prevent your computer from freezing up on you, thus potentially ruining the CD-R that you're using to burn the music.