How to Burn a CD 

I think it's just cool to make my own physical playlists with covers I like. And if anything happens to the internet, or just my devices, I can still listen to music

Some new albums are no longer issued as CDs, only as digital downloads 😢. I sometimes burn those to a CD just to get my hands on the CD-version of the album that never was, so I can also play them on my CD players. Maybe that is silly, but I don't care 😉

For years I've been making how to burn a CD tutorials that have 1000000+ views, but man you've really nailed it I'm not even going to bother this year. Well done and I love the time capsule bit!

I just got my first car that has a CD player, and it’s been a kind of silly wish of mine to successfully burn a CD on my own and play it. This will totally help, thank you :)

I've become really invested in CD burning recently, cause I want to put some playlists that are on youtube on them! Thank you for the video, I greatly appreciate it!!!

i go to computer shop to burn my playlist when i was in elementary to high school, man, those were the days but now, already earning to buy tons of official CDs that i love. CD forever! 💿🤘🏻

Appreciate videos like these. I started collecting and using cds half a year ago, i never personally owned cds because I was a kid when cds were popular. Cds are so neat.

ive recently gotten into playing my own cds on my portable cd player, makes me feel cool lol, i thought about maybe burning my own cds because its hard to find cds made by artists being sold anymore, thank you for this video, super helpful!! :D

Honestly I’m old school.. I think that CD should be appreciated more. ❤

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gonna put together my first beat tape, this is gonna come in handy. Thank you very much❤

Super informative and helpful. I look forward to trying it out myself.

I've been trying to make a mixtape for my Fiancée, and this is VERY helpful, thank you so much!

Lol its 2024 and i come across this 😂❤ i know people who still burn cds :) its fairly rare now but people still do it

Great summary Mike, enjoyed the video and agree with a lot of what you said. Thanks. Thought it was just me that still burned CDRs! Some thoughts from an old Napster/Winamp "veteran"... (1s and 0s are all the same folks, this probably isn't for you) To save reading heres the short version: What I found to give best results reliability, ease of use and sound quality. RIPPING: Exact Audio copy ripped to AIF (not Flac) using external compression encoder SoX. Flac format is fine too, lowest compression level 5 is default set to 1, no encoder needed but 2-3% less sound quality when file burned. (in my opinion!) CD MEDIA: JVC/CMC Pro Taiyo Yuden BURNING: 16/44 - Foobar2000 with Audio CD Writer plugin added Hires - CDBurnerXP (automatic conversion to 16/44 prior to burning) - burn at lowest speed your drive can do. But there's more... Audiophile nerd with this stuff from back in the day, found over the years that the combination of what CDR media burning software used can give different results sound quality wise? Spent a bit of time chasing that "best sound quality", my $0.02 worth I found in my travels. Great Online resource all things CD here: www.cdrinfo.com/forum/ * RIPPING EAC for burning is the way to go for the most accurate rip, absolutely. 1 thing? Originally ripped to FLAC, compression level 5? Always the curious one, I compared AIF (apple lossless) rips to FLAC. Both "lossless" and whilst TECHNICALLY no difference _bits are bits, right?_ AIF rips sound better to me than Flac. There ARE technical differences in both formats, maybe one makes the CPU work less in umcompressing the file - Who knows? Mad, I know, but enough of a difference to have re rerip my CDs in AIF format. * WHAT CDR MEDIA TY CDR media is hands down the best, tried several brands and these always won out for sound quality and failure rate. * BURNING 2 scenario's: - burning 16/44 CD quality to CD - burning Hires to to CD (You can burn DSD to CD, but thats outwith scope of my word salad here) Tried most software out there and after much trial and error heres what works best for me. 16/44 Foobar 2000 with Audio CD Writer plugin added. www.foobar2000.org/ www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_burninate Can do DSP downsampling, Dither and Replaygain, but most importantly has a "burn gaplessly" tickbox. Maybe less CPU numbercrunching in the burn process, dunno, but burnt CDs sound better in comparison to other software I've tried. Hires You need to downsample hires to 16/44 before you can burn it onto a CD. How? Sometimes the best source for sensible information on this stuff comes from the Pro Audio world, those guys record and master the music we listen to. They would, say, record a session in 24/96 and downmix it to 16/44 for sending out CDs to get approval on. How do they do it? You can acually do it in Foobar Audio CD Writer plugin, just set it to 16/44 and your good to go, and some of those guys do just that. I tried many different ways, from free to pro level Weiss Saracon software and all were more/less work and sounded slightly different. Happily to me what sounded the best converting hires to 16/44 was the easiest to use, the conversion all done automatically was a free software you mentioned Mike, CDBURNER XP After using the Weiss software and able to control every conversion setting, not knowing how CDBurner XP did its conversion took a bit of getting my head around, but it DID sound the most like the original Hires file out of all of them. Happy now in the way I rip and burn CDs now - since and simple and I know Im getting great results and dont need to look further.

I had ripped all my CD's to digital years ago, I'm old 62. a couple of years ago I had a house fire that destroyed my CD collection. I was able to salvage my hardrives. I began to burn these back to CD's. I have burned over 350 plus back. With covid, I was able to buy a refurbished NAD CD player for a reasonable price. I do have blusound node2i as well. I a'm retired now, but burning to CD is actually fun. I noticed that Fractal Design released a case, The Fractal Pop that actually has a 5.25 drive bay. My car doesn't have a drive, so my CD is home use only.

I burn CDs, but not for a mix cd or anything but to back up the actual cd itself. A lot of CDs I get are pre-owned because you know their loss is my gain, some though have been quite difficult to find and have been a bit more expensive than I'd usually pay so I make the backup so the original is safe in its case. The last lot of CDRs I had were Hp, they weren't to bad and I can't remember having any trouble with them. As for the burning part it depends on how I ripped the cd, sometimes I'd use the free personal use only version of Acohol100% which you can make an image of the cd and burn it through the app itself. If I rip it as FLAC I use Anyburn and that seemed to be ok.

My experience is that burning at slow speed delivers a longer timespan of readability for CD-Rs, including data CDs.. I've tested this with different older CD players that have less developed error corrections. The burner and the speed is most likely just as or more important to preserving your data over time than the quality of the empty CD-R.

This was very informative thank you 👍🏻

Can't wait to make my own version of Midnights (Til Dawn Edition) because there is no physical version of it Thank you!

I want to create a CD for my dads 75. birthday and was not sure how to go about it - thank you for some ideas.

As a Gen Z guy, I confirm that when someone tells us to burn a CD we literally go to the stove and burn it.

I prefer and love ripping my own cd's. I don't have to connect to the internet and I have full control over quality, versions and immediate access. No compression, no internet, direct music play.

U so right..the ads are the worst

I'm watching this to hopefully get back the joy of popping cds in my dads CD player.

Appreciate the info on CD-R and external DVD/CD Drive. Definitely getting the external DVD drive. How would you burn cassette recordings to CD so that the CD will play back in standard DVD players?

I buy all my discs, both movies & music. I've bought 300 SACDs and around 1900 CDs since summer 2009. I use CD Ripper in dBpoweramp to rip all the CDs I've bought. I love CD Ripper.

Thank you

Like you Mike one of the few that still burns cd in 2023 lol!!! I use 'Ashampoo Burning Studio'.In my opinion one of the best.

Real pirate hours🏴‍☠️🗣️‼️

my school is banning phones this year so imma need this for my music at school lmao

This is coming in handy as i just bought a used Inifiniti G37 and playing music from my phone seems impossible in the car! Im excited to make cds and have a old school cd book! Cant wait to show my kids and teach them not so simple and easy ways to live life lol even if its just flipping through a cd book!

Several years ago I bought an Apple DVD player for playing movies, the SuperDrive. Then, later on, I decided to update all my lossy albums to lossless, and the DVD player came in real handy because it plays/burns/rips CDs as well. So all I need for all of this endeavor is my Macbook, the SuperDrive and whatever CD I want to rip/burn.

When I burn my cd and play them either on my pc or in the car, etc, the name i inputed of the song or artist never shows it just says track 1, any help?

Hello Mike, I am like you. I love CDS, I grew up with them, I have a huge collection of original CDS and I have thousands of recorded CDs. I like everything related to CDS, cover art, photos, information etc... even smelling them, hahaha!!! so for me I will continue to use the CDS until the day I die. Unfortunately, where I live, the original CDS are not available, especially the first edition, first press ones from the 80's and 90's, so I have to resort to making my own copies. Love your T-shirts. I send you a big and affectionate greeting!

Hey there! Ive got a Sony MHC-RX99 hifi system from 1998 that won't play any of my burned discs, even sony CD-Rs surprisingly and even at low burn speeds. The burned discs are only read once the system has been turned off for a few hours or so. Is there any way i can get burned discs to be read at any time?

This is like the newest video on RU-vid how to burn a DVDs on RU-vid. I honestly wanna learn how to burn a DVD so I can have DVDs in my car so I don’t have to use my phone. This albums I want to get but they’re really old so they’re not available to buy any more.

I burned so many CDs that I can't even remember all of them. I did a lot of driving for work and an MP3 CD would have 200 plus songs and would last me a week. I made Christmas MP3 CDs for everybody at work and they really liked them. I also backed up thousands of old time radio episodes on dual layer DVDs.

well, those were the times ... 🙂 ... I do burn my own but after buying a cd album then I rip it into mp3/flac and then put most of them on cd,just for random playing purpuse later on[and for archive reason as well,although I put them all on hdd/ssd drives]. I mostly buy VERBATIM cd-r. My first ones , burned in late '90s are still well playable,no problem with them at all. 😊

Okay so this is gonna make me sound a little stupid but I honestly don’t know anything about CDs. I’m 15 and I haven’t ever burned a cd and have only ever used them a couple times, and they were my dads. I’m really glad you went into detail about the process and explained what’s what. I want to make a few playlists for my brothers car, since it doesn’t have an aux and he loves music. We’re gonna be sharing the car once I learn to drive to this is gonna be really nice once i do learn. I love music but streaming is really expensive and I just can’t afford to have music AND tv anymore. I’m really excited to learn more about this and get to doing it. Anyways thanks for making this it’s really helpful for younger generations that don’t know much about how to make physical media! Edit: does anyone have recommendations for cheaper external players? And programs? I’m broke/saving a lot of my money for a concert lol. Sorry for being so out of touch for this, it’s my first time ever learning about it 😅

Good morning Mike!

I burn CD-Rs for a different reason. I like to "remaster" certain CDs because they then sound better to me. Especially older pressings. I use Foobar2000 to host the dsp plugins I use and directly convert the CD to remastered WAV files. I then use Foobar2000 to burn the new CD either with or without gaps. I also use the Superdrive with my Windows notebook.

What free software do you recommend to burn DVDs? Is Ashampoo a good one??? Using win 8 ...

I hear burning speed can affect readability on some devices (the faster you burn the less readable). How much truth is there on this? Great video btw. I love CDs and this channel.

I may mostly play digital rips but CDs are my preferred medium. I do buy music from Qobuz (singles that are otherwise unavailable) so I do need to back it up, if only ‘cos I’m an IT nerd!

Be careful not all hi fi cd player work with CD-R , Specially from 90th you need burning in low speed x4 to x8 max ,

Is the apple super drive Able to print images onto the disc? And must I convert mp3 files to something else? I use Logic Pro

Hello, I would like to print some covers that I have found for a couple of cds that I cannot buy because they are out of print. Could you advise me what type of paper would be suitable and if there is any program for mac to embed or copy the original covers that I have and using the right measurementsof the CD? Thank you

I could never choose aux over my cd's, I love being able to buy music that does not have a physical release on Amazon Music and then Burning it to my Discs. Kim Dracula, here's looking at you. Please release your next album PHYSICALLY! Also thank you for the video, I burned the same album on 3 different cd's with different software. The first and best result that is comparable to my store bought cd's was K3B on Linux Mint, then I used the xfce burn utility that totally destroyed the rip. Lastly I used Windows Media Player as I did my WHOLE LIFE and it worked perfectly and was the easiest but had less features and was roughly the same output and quality of my aux from my phone. I also want to note that K3B allowed me to set an artist and album name that my cd player in the car actually displayed so not only did it sound the best but it had that little extra touch. Unfortunately the second and 3d burn attempt totally failed so I switched :(

as a kpop fan, i do love buying albums which come with their own cds, however i love how personal a homemade cd is and want to make my own playlists in a physical form :DDD

I find it weird that people don’t like CD’s.. For one they contain the EXACT same high quality audio files since they left the studio in read-only.. Giving you easy access to ripping them into any format you like, as well as the convenience of owning a physical copy.

Can you please make video on how to burn cd from. Flac on EAC

Soo I tried burning a (cd-rw) soI can put songs on my car,tried using media player everything was fine burned 11 songs and went to my car,once i inserted the disc the songs were being played but it was (cutting) like every 1 sec the song would cut and it was annoying tried burning it at a slow speed still same issue,tried (imgburn) and it made it worse,now it did say it burned 11 songs but in my car it only showed 1 song and that song wasn't even playing at all, erased the disc tried again at a slower speed still the same,in media player i also used the option (audio cd) but same as before,its driving me nuts,i bought a (MediaRange 12xspeed cd-rw rewritable) but doesn't seem to be working anything i could do? And to add one more thing in my disc file,the songs are called (track01.cda) (track02.cda) and so on

Back in the day T Yuden made great metal particle chrome or high bias position cassette tapes.

I was born in the digital age, but I prefer physical media. I don’t want to pay a ton of different subscriptions to watch the shows I like and listen to the movies I like. I’d rather make a one time purchase of a CD or DVD and get to watch/listen to it as many times as I want without any buffering as long as I take good care of it. Also, there’s just something different about putting a record on or listening to a CD in my room, or even listening to a good radio station. I want to try and burn a CD of my favorite songs that are only available as singles so even if the artist made their albums on records or CDs, I wouldn’t be able to get a hold of it.

Have you changed the external CD drive? I was wondering if there are even better external CD drives. I am willing to spend quite some money.

Without even watching this just yet I quickly wanted to ask how to separate a saved RU-vid list of music which is also in video format of course into individual TRACKS to use in my Vehicles CD player? I have the Wondershare utility/App on my Macbook Air and download the RU-vid videos with that but I want to create a CD for the Car......and so not sure how to burn them into individual tracks an not just one long list of music all playing continuously in the car and not being able to skip tracks or go back to a track and whatnot?

thank u sir

Streaming sucks ass, uses data, and is just a general pain in the ass. Using music on a device is a PITA. My iPod died a decade ago, and both iOS and Android will delete legally owned versions of my music. Last year I got a used vehicle that has a cassette and CD player. and it has been a treasure listening to 10-20 year old "mixtapes." I haven't ripped and burned in over a decade, but I'm looking forward to doing it again.

My car is 20 years old. It has a cd player but no kind of bluetooth sync or any of that more modern stuff. Ever since I got the car I've been getting so much more into CDs. Sadly, there's tons of music now that only releases digital. For that reason, I need to figure out how to do this. They don't make computers with disk drives anymore either, so I really am having to work from the ground up here. thanks for the drives recommendation.

Now I just need a laptop that has a CD burner n the JVC cds

Totally off topic but would the Asus zen drive be good as a cd transport?

MA. Thanks for information provided...good job.....well where is the how to burn a CD part of process..? Please make it easy user friendly...especially for windows 10...loading the software issues and clear easy to see screens from step ..one to the finished product. Include converting CD to conventional or standard CD/DVD players sold in store. If you have this already...where is the link? Most important thanks for sharing...very generous.

My car doesn't even have an AUX port xD I can't get anything from my phone to my stereo without paying for some extra doodad or another. Bandcamp is my personal go-to for buying the music since it has such an indie focus, but not every artist there sells CDs (some only sell cassettes!)

Okay but where to buy JVC CDs now? At least in Hungary the only option for high quality CD-R is Verbatim AZO (Make sure the package says AZO as the non-AZO or "EXTRA PROTECTION" packages are made by CMC Magnetics)

Artists are remastering thier catalogs, and the original recordings are disappearing at an alarming rate. Artists are pulling the originals and replacing them with tracks that just sound a little different. Physical media will be the only way to the original recording. It trips me out that I am old enough to remember the start of the CD craze and all the way though to the commercial death of CD's (generally speaking, but never dead to me/us). Now thier are CD hipsters lol. What a ride.

Analog analog digital shirt is so real

I wish there was burnable cds whether they are cd-r's and cd-rw's that have the durability of blu ray discs since blu ray discs are impervious to scratches. I have burn cds that end up getting scratches on them, they skip on them and sometimes are even unplayable because its loading the whole time, than the music player that I use ends up freezing since the cd is scratched up and than I get the notification that the cd is damaged and won't play. I even get the cds to see if there is any disc rot and there is no disc not at all, just a bunch of scratches on cds. If there were discs that impervious like blu ray discs that has the same high capacity of hard drives, I would use them instead of hard drives and ssds since hard drives and ssds are known for failures with limited amount of read and writes. I would use blu ray discs for long term archival if there was options for large capacity hard drives but in a blu ray format. You can rewrite on a rewrite on a disc multiple times without the limitations of read and writes like hard drives and ssds. I had burned discs on rewriteable discs that have failed during a burning disc process and I would erase the whole disc and burn from the same disc again and it would work. It works every time. I would continue the same cycle every single time I burn a disc or multiple discs whenever they fail to burn due to an error during the burning the disc process. It works every time I do it, it's very tedious and time consuming but it's worth it because at least I know that it's reliable and it's fool proof. I had to go thru multiple discs that were write once and not rewriteable and they end up failing and I had to throw them away which really sucks because it was annoying when it happened. I bought the write once discs because they were cheaper than the rewriteable discs plus the write once discs had more available in a bundle than the rewritable discs when they are on sale. I go to thrift stores such as goodwill and value village to find blank cds and blank dvds. Most of the time, they look brand new plus they are very cheap. I shop for blu ray movies, dvds, cds and sometimes cassette tapes whenever I shop at thrift stores. I randomly seen vintage gear from goodwill and value village, every once in a while I will go to salvation army and look for the same things that I do at goodwill and value village. I use media monkey free version since it's available for only windows plus i use it to sync my music library with my android devices and you can use media monkey to burn your cds. I like media monkey way better than iTunes on windows since iTunes would freeze everytime on windows. I only use windows, android and chrome os. I would use linux if it had the same support like windows but I play pc games from steam, epic games and gog games plus windows has better support for using any program and support for android apps on windows 11. I still don't like windows 11, the only thing that I like about windows 11 is support for android apps but that's all. I had too many issues with nvidia drivers when I was using linux ubuntu debian in the past when I installed linux on a windows vista laptop to replace windows vista since I never like the way windows vista was very slow and the linux ubuntu debian was more reliable and faster than windows vista besides the nvidia driver issues I had.

Also nostalgia.

I will be honest, I download my music through some rather *_illegal_* means. One reason is I'm poor. Another is I don't have the best internet connection. Edit: I'd use CMC pros for CD-Rs to burn music onto. Professional grade. Would be great for someone like me, who'd want to record some music on my own and make physical copies of it. And Taiyo Yuden is no longer around. They shut down around 6 or 7 years ago.

As a former employee in the industry and developing the quality measuring equipment of optical media. A "trick" to actually get "better"/"acceptable"/"in specification" blank CD-R records. Is to buy a branded one! Why? It is that CD-R manufactures makes the stamper so that the first ones is actually slightly out of specification but when it starts to wear down the stamper it slowly goes to be in specification. Until it get worn out and getting out of specification again and needs to be replaced. So all those that's "in specification" limits (for the CD-R specification it is not red book it is actually orange books that I have used to implement test parameters from in the test equipment that determine if a disc is in or out of specification.) Will get a brand and all other that actually works somewhat but are out of the orange book specification will get sold as "no name" CD-Rs. In other words the manufacturer has fully control of their production and the quality and there is quality reasons why it is cheaper and "no name" even if the disc is made in the same plant and mashine as the branded CD-Rs are made. So no those discs is not "actually brand X and sold as no names". And no there is no bargain to be had. (If someone thought that). Another tip to get as good quality as possible is to try to make sure that the latest FW is used in the drive that is available. And it is not that simple that 1x burn speed is giving better results than 52x burn speed does. Actually to know the optimal speed to use with a specific type of CD-R is to try them out and test the results you get. But that equipment is not available for us. But maybe I would go down a notch from the specified speed that the disc is certified for. For example if it is a 52x disc (yes disc dictate the speed not only the drive) then go with 48x. And trust me 1x is not getting the job better.. it is more complex than we can imagine and to long to go into here. Good luck with your endeavour into burning CD-R:s. ❤

no ads music yes pls

yo thanks dog, im producing cds for an artist

I was hoping to hear some thoughts on burn speed. When I use the Apple Music app I am presented with an option to go faster or slower but I’m not sure which option to pick. Any thoughts?

Mike, I have a question, I know CD .Wav is at 16/44, Can a .Wav file be 24/96 or 24/192?

I have a problem with the burning speed. I'd like to use old Kodak CD-R (1-12X speed) but my external CD burner only allows me to burn at 10X speed. Worse then that, my internal CD burner allows me only 16X speed. I don't understant. Someone knows why ?

thank you sm im gonna make a cd for my gf !!

many people still use dvd still older car offten radio problems

I have a question for years. Do burned cds damage the lenses of the cd players?

Mike, Thank you for this video! I'm a bit anal & thus of course also a bit confused? Why burn a CD w/ Exact Audio Copy to create another exact CD copy? Seems redundant if you already own the CD! I have figured out how to use Exact Audio Copy to rip and am in the process of creating FLAC digital files of my entire 40+ year old CD collection. Following on, I'm interested in streaming these CD FLAC music files directly via computer USB cable into a DAC that then input via RCA into my preamp and then into my 2 channel amp that feeds my multiple Zone whole home speaker system. (Current components: ASUS Laptop Computer w/ external CD drive for ripping CDs w/ Exact Audio Copy, Playback software is AIMP to selected computer outputs. Preamp and Amp are both Parasound Halo products.) My issue today is figuring out this the best software to store & more importantly stream the music files (that will bypass the computer's DAC) via USB out to a better DAC that feeds my preamp. Doesn't seem logical to send a computer DAC file to another DAC an then to preamp. FYI, I'm currently using freeware AIMP playback software that seems to work OK, but is not as functional as I'd like. Thank you again for taking the time to create RU-vid content! Any feedback will be appreciated!

nice microphone😎

Those CD-R's mentioned here only come in 100-packs and I only need one or two at most....depending on how many TRACKS you can create with ONE disc......

I need to burn cd's my 97 Dakota has an old school CD player with no aux for my luck. And I do prefer cd's something about the nostalgia.

Can you teach me how to burn a ps1 game on a generic cd-r ? I really want to play it on my PS1 again :(( Im hoping for your response

mine wont work in a cd player

How do DJ’s do it? How do they get music to mix music?

And what about CD-RWs? I can't have 100% success with them due to it's impossible to slow the burning speed with neither any software, nor any cd burner, nor any media brand. I bought one asus dvd burner, one rodzon, even one apple superdrive. It's always 10X. Burn, Toast, iTunes, Adobe Audition, and Philips, Verbatim, Intenso, Traxdata,....no problems with CDRs but lot of problems with CD-RW. I love CDs, you're not the only one.

This taught me absolutely nothing congrats to you sir

I’m going back to buying CDs because I’m done with streaming services!!

Is there some company that's burning cd's with your favorite songs?

If being picky is wierd were the same bro.

When you burn your own CD you actually it

okay, I still have a question. How to burn CD in 2023?

Back in the late eighties I wouldn't even listen to a CD unless it had a a d on it. I didnt even know what it meant at the time but I sure knew that whatever artist recorded that way it sure sounded better.😬

I had this crazy idea that you were going to actually show us how to burn a cd. What on earth gave me that idea?

C'est une blague démolir un lecteur DVD même s'il est en panne ça peut toujours se réparer n'importe quoi on aura tout vu

I just want to burn CDs cuz my used car doesn't have bluetooth lol...

How to burn "your" disk in a market place?😅

it't not a how to but a why to video...

CDs can become unreadable OVER TIME??????!!!!!