Copy songs to Hard drive before Burning to Disk
If you are wanting to burn songs from several CDs to one CD. It will be easier to do, if you copy the songs to the hard drive first from each CD. If you do not do that, then when you are burning the CD with the songs you have selected, it will pause and tell you to put each CD in that has the songs that you selected. This can take a good amount of time and frustration. It won't tell you what song it is looking for. It will just tell you to insert the CD so if you don't know which CD it is, then you have to insert each CD till you find it.
Below is the procedure to copy them to the hard drive.
- Right click on Start
- Click on Explore
- Open My Documents
- Make sure My Documents is highlighted
- Click on File
- Click on New
- Click on Folder
- Name the folder Copied music
- Make sure the music CD is in the CD-ROM drive
- Click on the drive with the music you want to copy
- Highlight all the songs that you want to copy. Click here for help with how to highlight more than one file.
- Click on Edit
- Click on Copy
- Highlight the Copied music folder
- Click on Edit
- Click on Paste
- Right click the song you just pasted
- Click on Rename
- The song will be listed as Track.cda (it may have a different extension than .cda and that is OK)
- Do not change the .cda or other extension. Only change the Track part.
- Change the Track to the name of the song.
- Click outside the field to accept the change
Repeat the above steps for each song you want to burn to the CD. Once all the songs are there, then you can burn the songs to a CD. Once the songs are burned to the CD, you can come here and delete the songs. You can also delete the folder if you will not use it any more. If you are going to burn again, you can leave it for future use.