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Make ordinary CDs from your mp3 files
Got a collection of mp3 files but your CD player can't manage them? David Dorn shows you some sleight of hand Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 performs to solve your problem.
Napster users may well have great gobbets of mp3 files lying around on their hard disks with nowhere else to play them. If, though, you've got a CD burner and Roxio (formerly Adaptec) Easy CD Creator, you can quite easily convert your mp3s to ordinary CD tracks and play them in your ordinary, non-mp3 CD player.
How? It's simple.
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Open up Easy CD Creator, and create a new music CD project (it's important that you choose only 'Music CD') |
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Now simply drag and drop your mp3s onto the track area |
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Easy CD is dead clever - it'll automatically convert the mp3 to a CD-Audio file (which is actually a .WAV file) and show exactly how much space you're taking up on your blank CD-R. |
All that's left to do now is burn the CD and finalize it, and, lo and behold, you can take it and play it in any CD player that can handle CD-R disks.
If you want to be really flash, and you have a CD player that can handle CD-RW you could burn to CD-RW and just update it when you want to change the tracks on it.
That's all there is to it! Enjoy!
