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Microsoft Windows XP Starter Edition


Create
your
own
CDs


Create your own CDs. Windows XP Starter Edition makes it easy to transfer your favorite music or other audio files onto a recordable CD you can play on any CD player. Now you can take music from the Internet to your home stereo, car, or portable CD player, and you can create custom CDs containing only the tracks you want to hear, in the order you want to hear them! You'll need a hardware device called a CD-rewritable drive, or CD-RW, and, of course, a supply of blank writable audio CDs.

Windows Media Player has built-in tools that make the process of transferring music (or other audio files) from your hard drive to a CD quick and simple. You must first have created a playlist before you can copy tracks to a CD. Once you have a playlist or two to choose from, here's how to create your own CD.

To make your own CD

  1. Open Windows Media Player.
  2. Insert a blank, writable CD into your CD-RW drive.
  3. Click on the Copy to CD or Device tab. If necessary, click on the disk drive to which you wish to copy music.
  4. Choose a playlist from the Music to Copy dropdown menu.
  5. Clear the checkboxes beside any tracks you do not wish to copy.
  6. Click Copy Music.

This starts the Windows Media Player/Adaptec CD recording program. Sit back and wait for all the tracks on your selected playlist to be copied to your own CD.

The items in your playlist must total no more than 74 minutes in length, or 650 MB.

Copying a track from a commercial CD onto your hard drive using Windows Media Player automatically creates a license for the version of that track on your computer.

To ensure your license stays active

  1. Click Tools, and then click License Management.
  2. Click Restore Now.

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Control audio quality

Windows Media Player lets you control the reproduction quality of CDs you record. By reducing the quality, each track on your CD will take up less space. This allows you to accommodate more tracks up to the 650 MB capacity of the disk.

To adjust audio quality

  1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
  2. On the CD Audio tab, move the sliding control to where you'd like it - to the left to create more space on each CD, to the right for the best stereo quality.
  3. Click Apply.

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