Your Computer’s CD 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 music shareware sites like Napster that made it really easy and cheap to download your favorite songs. You just store the songs on the computer’s hard drive and add it to your MP3 player if you wanted.
If you wanted to transfer your downloaded files to a CD, all you needed was a CD burner which now comes will all new computers.
A CD burner comes in two formats, an external drive and an internal drive. Most people are probably familiar with the internal drives that connect to you CPU and is housed in your computer tower. The external drive on the other hand is not connected to the CPU and plugs in to your computer via a USB port.
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 you’ll need software to run your CD burner which in most cases comes with your computer in the form of Windows Media Player. If you want something that works better and offers you more options, your best bet is to purchase Nero or Roxio.
If you just can’t afford to spend money on software for your burner, you still have a few good options when it comes to the free software. Two better free options to look for are Deep Burner or 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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