If you are searching for some easy and quick ways to burn a CD, this guide is what you need. By following this helpful guide, you can learn how to burn a CD on Windows 10 with a professional CD burner, iTunes, and Windows Media Player.
You may want to burn a CD for many purposes, such as making a CD of your favorite album in order to share it with your friends, making a CD for a presentation, or creating a copy of your favorite songs. No matter what you want to do with the burned CD, you need to first learn some skills to burn your favorite songs onto a CD.
To burn a music CD on a Windows computer, you have three options - using a CD burner, using Windows Media Player, or using iTunes. Each of these methods has its advantages and limitations. And we will provide you with an explanation for each pro and con so that you can choose the right method that best suits your needs.
If you need to burn or rip a CD regularly, your best option is to install a CD burner on your computer. In that way, you can burn any songs to a CD or rip contents from discs you already have onto your computer whenever you want. There are a lot of such tools in the market, and this all-in-one CD burner - EaseUS MakeMyAudio is one of the best options you can have. EaseUS MakeMyAudio comes with a CD burner and CD ripper to help you handle basic burning and ripping tasks.
Not only that, it also comes with many additional editing tools that allow you to edit MP3 files and create your songs. These tools include:
If you want to give it a try, you can download it on your computer and follow this simple tutorial to burn a CD.
Step 1. Launch EaseUS MakeMyAudio on your PC and choose "CD Burner" from its main screen.
Step 2. From the top menu, click "Add Files" to import the audio files you wish to burn onto a CD.
Step 3. Click "Start" to start the burning process and wait for the process to finish.
Step 4. Once it's completed, you see a prompt that says the process has finished.
iTunes also enables you to burn songs to a CD. But it only supports burning songs that are authorized to play through your iTunes account to CDs. It doesn't support burning protected content like those downloaded from Apple Music. What's more, one playlist can be used to burn 5 CDs only. If you exceed this number, you'll need to create a new playlist to burn more CDs.
After knowing that, you can follow these steps to create a playlist and burn a CD with iTunes. By the way, this method also can be applied to burn a CD on a Mac.
Step 1. Create a playlist in iTunes
Step 2. Add songs to the playlist
Step 3. Burn a CD
Windows Media Player is a native media player built into Windows computers. It comes with some simple editing tools, one of which is to burn a CD. Here is how it works to burn a CD.
Step 1. Insert a blank disc into your computer.
Step 2. Open the Windows Media Player window on your computer.
Step 3. In the upper right corner of the screen, choose the Burn tab.
Step 4. Click the Burn options button and select "Audio CD."
Step 5. Browse your library to select songs that you want to burn onto a CD. Once you've chosen, drag the items to the right pane to create a burn list.
Step 6. Click on "Start burn" to start the burn process.
Actually, you can't burn a CD from Google Play because Google Play doesn't offer any burning service. But you can achieve your goal in a roundabout way, which is to download songs from Google Play on your computer and then either use EaseUS MakeMyAudio or Windows Media Player to burn a CD.
Now, let's start with downloading music from Google Play, and then you can use any of the methods introduced above to burn a CD.
Step 1. Open a new web browser and head to https://music.google.com.
Step 2. Log in to your Google account with your information.
Step 3. Click the "Music Library" tab.
Step 4. Click the "Albums" or "Songs" tab at the top of the screen.
Step 5. Place your mouse cursor over a song and click the three vertical dots.
Step 6. Choose "Download" or "Download Album."
All methods that can be used to burn a CD have been listed above. Based on your needs, you can choose any one of them to burn a CD. EaseUS MakeMyAudio is suitable for users who need to edit music or burn a CD regularly. And Windows Media Player is more ideal for users who want to burn a CD at once. And if you want to burn a CD from iTunes or Google Play, you can also find the way from this guide.
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