DIY: How to create an MP3 CD

By Rachel Wolan, CNET.com on 03 November 2005

Got a lot of songs on your MP3 player that you'd like to hear on your PC, home stereo or car CD player? Our tutorial explains how to burn you favourite playlist to CD to get more mileage from the music on your portable player.

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Comments (26)

  • Dmonster commented on 02/01/2008 14:38 Report abuse

    This is the BEST!!!

    Thanks for explaining how to do this.. I was one of those who could only ever fit <20 songs on a cd, lol.

  • aziz commented on 07/10/2007 05:07 Report abuse

    Thank you 1000 time

  • deskjockey commented on 22/08/2007 02:36 Report abuse

    Excellent. It worked first time and I now have over 6 hours of music to listen to on one CD on my new car CD/mp3 player. Thank you

  • casey2007 commented on 17/08/2007 15:45 Report abuse

    i feel like an idiot, this whole time i had been wondering why i could only fit 20 songs onto a cd using iTunes, i now know it is because i had Audio CD ticked instead of MP3 CD. Thanks so much DIY for this tip!

  • Casey07 commented on 17/08/2007 15:41 Report abuse

    i had always wondered why i could only fit 20 songs onto a cd, then i read this article and now i can fit well over a hundred on one cd! thanks so so so much for the tips!

  • crazygemini1919 commented on 13/08/2007 10:11 Report abuse

    all my songs are mp3 and edited preferences.. i know everything is right but after it checks my playlist my cd pops right back out and a message pops up that says "an unknown error has occoured"...?? any help??

  • jabeen commented on 07/06/2007 10:21 Report abuse

    Thanks DIY. I felt silly n stupid when i didnt know what others were talking about. :)

  • musadaq commented on 15/05/2007 02:26 Report abuse

    thank u

  • meadsy24 commented on 08/05/2007 03:15 Report abuse

    My car has MP3 CD capabilities and the owner manual says you can create a max of 99 albums (367 Tracks) on one MP3-CD for playing on car system. However when I create my play list in MP3 format (Data CD) via Windows Media the amount of tracks allowed is much less than above before the message "May Not Fit" appears against tracks. Why is this? What am I doing wrong? Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks

  • tom commented on 19/03/2007 00:49 Report abuse

    Take the files off the cd `using windows explorer copy and paste` Open windows media player. click burn, put the songs you wish to put on a CD in the `burn playlist` and then enter a blank CD, this will convert the tracks for use on a normal CD player (as long as it plays CD-R or CD+R`s.

    Enjoy

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