Creating MP3 music CDs directly with Windows media Player 11
Follow this tip to burn as many music albums as possible from the hard disk to a MP3 CD in a completely hassle- free manner.
If you are using the new Windows Media Player 11, insert a writable CD in the burner and start the player. Click on the arrow under ‘ Media Library’ and ensure that the ‘ Music option is activated in the menu.
Now click on the arrow under ‘ Burn’ and select ‘Data- CD or DVD’ in the menu. Then click on ‘Burn’ and insert an empty CD or DVD disk.
On the left side of the window, you can sift through your music collection. Click on ‘Media library’ and then on ‘Album’, so that the Media Player lists all the fetched albums in alphabetical order. With the left mouse button, drag the first album that you would like to burn on the CD to the right in the free area under ‘ Current disc’ WMP11 shows the MP3 ID3 tags in the albums. You can drag more albums from the top of the list under ‘Current disc’.
As you add songs to the list, keep an eye on the free space available – it reduces with every album added. If the date you added is more than 700MB, it will exceed the capacity of the disk. Media Player then immediately plans to burn another CD. The files intended for that appear in the ‘Next disk’ list. If you want to compress the selected files on one CD, click on the arrow under ‘Burn’ again and open ‘More-options’. Activate the ‘Convert to’ option in the ‘Burn’ tab. Move the slider for playback quality towards the right. A general rule of the thumb is; the lesser the quality, the more music will fit on one disc. Now click on ‘OK’ and ‘Burn’.
