Music-playing devices today support streaming or playing audio files from portable storage media.
Our offline music lives in external drives, USB sticks, or SD cards.
That’s why it feels as if you’re free to listen to your favorite tracks from everywhere.
And then you realize your old car’s audio system can only play CDs.
Nothing more, nothing less.
CDs are all but obsolete today.
Those little discs were a combination of a protective plastic layer and a thin metallic surface.
Data was stored on an imperceptible spiral track on the metallic surface as a sequence of pits.
Commercial CDs were pressed, literally, from a master disc.
The pressure was what created the track and pits on their surface.
Writable discs had a thermo-sensitive chemical structure.
That’s why such devices were also called “CD burners”.
However, such rotation rates also demanded high-quality optical media.
Cheap discs could even explode when used with devices that exceeded writing speeds over 42x.
And no, we’re not exaggerating.
This wasn’t a problem when using CDs for data storage and accessing them on your PC.
However, audio CD players were primarily designed for commercial pressed discs with well-defined tracks.
Re-writeable optical media were even more quirky.
Those never caught up because of higher prices, lower speeds, and even more flakey compatibility.
Their “re-writability” required a different metallic surface than “normal” CDs.
On top of the above, you should keep standards in mind.
All devices that work with similar optical discs are compatible with CDs.
Thanks to this, it’s possible for you to also use a DVD or Blu-Ray writer.
Check our article onhow to rip a CD to MP3 (and auto-name the files correctly).
For the software side of things, we’ll be using ImgBurn.
More importantly, it’s free.
So, visitImgBurn’s official site.
Download the app and install it on your PC, then run it.
Place an “empty” CD in your CD writer, and prepare to burn some music.
With CDs restricted to around 70 minutes of audio, you must prioritize, think, and plan.
To choose the tracks that matter the most.
