Chapter 4: Using Drives and Ports

Playing a CD

Use a music program or Windows Media Player on your computer to:

■Play music CDs

■Create MP3 music files from your music CDs

■Edit music track information

■Use your music files to build a music library

Tips & Tricks For more information about playing CDs, see “Playing CDs” in Using Your Computer which has been included on your hard drive. To access this guide, click Start,

All Programs, then click Gateway Documentation.

Playing a DVD

A Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) is similar to a standard CD but has greater data capacity. Because of this increased capacity, full-length movies, several albums of music, or several gigabytes of data can fit on a single disc. You can play DVDs with a DVD program or Windows Media Player.

Tips & Tricks For more information about playing DVDs, see “Playing DVDs” in Using Your Computer which has been included on your hard drive. To access this guide, click Start, All Programs, then click Gateway Documentation.

Creating CDs and DVDs

You can use a CD and DVD burning program, Windows XP,

Windows Media Player, or Windows Movie Maker to copy or create data CDs and DVDs, create music CDs, create video DVDs, and more.

Tips & Tricks For more information about creating CDs and DVDs, see “Creating CDs and DVDs” in Using Your Computer which has been included on your hard drive. To access this guide, click Start, All Programs, then click Gateway

Documentation.

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