Once iTunes has taken care of business, it lets you know that it’s now burning the CD. In addition to prepping the disc for recording, iTunes has to convert the music files to the standard format used by audio CDs. ITunes prepares to record the CD, which may take a few minutes. Click the Burn Disc button again after the program acknowledges the disc. Insert a blank CD into your computer’s drive when prompted. The icon changes into a yellow-and-black graphic that resembles the symbol used for fallout shelters in the 1950s. When you’re ready to roll, click the Burn Disc button at the top-right corner of the iTunes window. Then proceed as follows:Īlthough earlier versions of iTunes would stop burning a long playlist once it got to the last full song it could fit on a disc, iTunes 4.2 and later versions ask you to insert another disc if it runs out of room on the first one and then picks up where it left off. You pick the type of disc you want to make in the Preferences dialog box ( Figure 4-22). (The disc won’t play in any kind of player, of course it’s just a glorified backup disk for restoration when something goes wrong with your hard drive.) Most Windows computers with DVD burners can also burn DVDs with iTunes. iTunes 4 can also back up 4.7 gigabytes of your music collection at a time by copying it to a blank DVD. If your Mac has Mac OS X 10.1 or later and has an Apple SuperDrive that can play and record both CDs and DVDs, you have another option. At that point, the songs are MP3 files.īackup DVDs. Or you could burn the AAC files onto a CD and then rip that into iTunes, exactly as described earlier in this chapter. You could use certain frowned-upon utility programs from the Web. If you’re determined to do that, certain workarounds are available.
You can’t easily convert copy-protected AAC files into MP3 files, so you can’t burn an MP3 CD from a playlist that contains purchased music. Some DVD players and home-audio sound systems can also play MP3 CDs. Many modern players can play both CDs and MP3 CDs, and the prices are not much higher than that of a standard CD player. But if you want to take the disc on the road or even out to the living room, you’ll need a CD player designed to read both standard CDs and discs containing MP3 files. Just about any computer can play an MP3 CD. Instead of 74 or 80 minutes of music, a CD-R full of MP3 files can store 10 to 12 hours of tunes. An MP3 compact disc, however, is a data CD that contains music files in the MP3 format.īecause MP3 songs are much smaller than the AIFF files, many more of them fit in the standard 650 or 700 MB of space on a recordable CD. A standard audio compact disc contains high-quality, enormous song files in the AIFF format. (Not all players recognize CD-R discs either, but the odds are better.) CD-RW discs are not only more expensive, but may not work in standard CD players.
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