Copying CD’s with a Burner
Some time ago if you wanted to have your favorite band’s new CD, you had to buy it at a record store or buy it online. With the cost averaging around $10 it could end up costing you if you wanted more than just a few CD’s. If you couldn’t afford to buy all those CD’s you just waited for the radio to play it.
Then came those file sharing sites like Napster that could get you all those songs you wanted and it didn’t cost you a thing. You just downloaded it to your hard drive and transferred the songs to an MP3 player.
Since most cars have a CD player, you may have wanted to transfer your downloaded files to a CD. This is when a CD burner came in handy. Just about every computer has one now.
CD burners come in 2 forms, internal and external. Many people are probably more familiar with the internal burners that are housed in your computers tower. The external drive though, as the name implies, lives on the outside of your computer. You just connect it to your computer through a USB port. The both work the same though.
A nice thing about a CD burner is you can burn songs from one CD to another or burn songs off of your hard drive.
Now to use your CD burner, you need software. Most you can find free to download on the Internet. Some examples include Windows Media Player (this may already exist on your computer), Deep Burner, or ISO Recorder.
If you prefer to stick with the free options, you can download free burner software from the Internet. Some good free options to look for are Deep Burner and ISO Recorder.
Some might think a CD burner can only copy songs or audio recordings but this isn’t the case. You can also copy different files, programs, pictures, games, etc. You can burn all kinds of files. How did we ever live without a CD burner?
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