Tuesday April 21st, 2009

Lets Burn a music CD using Windows Media Player

Another good thing for us travelers, gypsy's and weekend warriors is taking our music along with us, no matter your taste in music, music always sets the tone of the day, at least for me it does.

So, let's burn a music CD using windows media player, then we will talk about other ways to bring your music on the road.

So the first thing I do is create a play list, go to your start menu and open computer or my computer, then go the file or drive that you have stored your music on. In my case, one of my external hard drives, or my J Drive. Then open the file where you have stored your mp3's. In my case the File is named MP3s.

So we are going to burn a new CD with some Johnny Cash Music, by boyhood hero. So I will open his file, which is filed under Country Music and select the songs I want to record and put on my play list.

I will select the songs by holding my control key, and clicking one time on the songs, once I have them all selected I will right click one time and click add to windows media player.

Ok, now that I have done that, look at your windows media player over on the far right you will see the list of songs you just added, you change the name of the play list (which is currently called "now playing") to any name you want, in this case I named it Johnny Cash, then look all the way at the bottom of the page on the far right, there is a save button, click on it and you have now saved your new play list.

Ok so now that we have some music playing lets burn that CD. So get a new CD out put it your CDRW Drive (CD player). Now just wait for the window to pop up a little box and ask you what do you want to do with that disk, select burn a music CD, then wait a little more and your windows media player will open back up, since we already have music playing and a play list up, the next steps are easy, look to the right again it will say drag items to be burned or burn Johnny Cash (the name of the play list we are playing) select burn Johnny Cash.

There will be an announcement in the upper right corner of how much space these selections will take up on your CD and how long it will take to burn them. In this case 17 minutes to burn and 79 :57 minutes of music.