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Burning a Music CD/DVD

BlarghyBlarghy Registered User regular
edited July 2012 in Help / Advice Forum
So, a friend of mine's birthday is coming up and one of the things I know she wants is a mix tape. Alas, this is something I have had little interest in doing in the past, but I do know my way around a computer so I'll try.

So, how would you go about doing this (legally, of course)? I have the rewritable DVDs (she plays her music from her DVD player), though I can get different media, if needed. From what I've googled, it looks like a DVD ripper program will be required (any recommendations on a free one?). And, finally, where can I actually buy/download the music from? itunes, or perhaps some other site? Anything else I will need?

Thanks in advance for any help!

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    You'd probably just want to buy some CD-RWs and use iTunes. DVD players play CDs as well. You don't need a DVD ripper program unless you're planning on making a mix with several thousand songs.

  • FantasmaFantasma Registered User regular
    edited July 2012
    If you can get the music DRM free, that will help you a lot, amazon.com is said to sell mp3s without DRM or protection. In case that you already own music CDs, you may extract tracks using a free program called Audiograbber and the Lame mp3 codec. Burning will be kind of trivial task once you have the files.

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  • L Ron HowardL Ron Howard The duck MinnesotaRegistered User regular
    PowerISO let's you make an audio CD from MP3s, automagically. I use it when I make my audio CDs for my old-as-fuck car. It's also free.
    Create a new Audio CD, select the MP3s you want, click burn, ??????, profit.

  • AresProphetAresProphet Registered User regular
    Even Windows Media Player will let you burn to a CD. It'll do any common format, if you have something more exotic like FLAC you might need something more specialized. But WMP always did most of the burning jobs I wanted. Nero did a great job too but I don't think there was every a legit free version.

    On a side note, this thread makes me feel old. There was a time when burning a CD was something people did on a regular basis!

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