CREATING CDs

MS300 User’s Manual

CREATING CDS

The MS300 is a complete media solution for storing, managing, and listening to your music, but what if you want to get your music out of your MS300 and take it with you? The MS300 has that covered as well. You can easily create custom mix CDs, backups copies of any physical CD, and record from the external analog inputs to a CD.

CREATING A CUSTOM MIX CD

A Custom Mix CD is a collection of songs that you record or “burn” to a blank CD. The new CD can then be played in your car stereo, computer, or any CD player which supports CD-R or CD-RW discs.

Follow these steps to create a custom Mix CD:

1.Press the MUSIC key to make sure you are in the Music source mode.

2.Press the RECORD key to display the Music Record Options menu.

3.Select the CREATE AN AUDIO MIX CD button if you want to create a standard audio CD which can be played in almost any CD player or select the CREATE A DATA MIX CD button if you want to create an data CD that can be played in any computer or CD player which supports MP3 CDs.

4.When the Music Record Select Guide appears, you can select one or more songs to include on your Mix CD. Navigation

of the Record Select Guide is the same as the other Guide screens. Note: You can select up to 80 minutes or 700 MB of songs because these are the maximum limits of recordable CDs.

5.Press the RECORD key again to continue the recording process and display the Music Record Progress – CD Read screen.

6.The MS300 will read each song you have selected and

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McIntosh MS300 user manual Creating CDs, Creating a Custom MIX CD