Chapter 6:

Making Music CDs

Music Making 6: Chapter CDs

A music CD is a compact disc (CD) containing digital audio tracks recorded in the Compact Disc-Digital Audio (CD-DA) format.

Music CDs can store up to 74 minutes of music and may contain up to 99 tracks, each usually representing a separate piece of music. Music CDs can be played back from a home or car CD player or from a CD-ROM drive through speakers or headphones attached to the drive’s output jack.

You can use Easy CD Creator to:

■Compile audio CDs of your favorite music

■Make CDs from Wave (.wav) files on your hard drive

Starting Easy CD Creator

1.Start up your computer.

2.Insert a blank CD-R or CD-RW disc in the CD-Writer Plus. After a few seconds a screen will appear which asks you to “Please select the type of CD you wish to create.”

NOTE: If no screen appears after about 15 seconds, you may have inserted a disc that is already formatted. Remove the disc and insert a blank disc. Or the “Auto insert notification” option may be disabled (this applies to Windows 95 only). To check this, click Start, move the mouse pointer over Settings, and click Control Panel. In Control Panel, double-click System and select the Device Manager tab. Double-click the icon for the CD-Writer Plus, then select the Settings tab. Click Auto insert notification if it does not have a check mark next to it, and click OK. Click OK on the System Properties dialog box. Then close the Control Panel.

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