My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

Burning a Custom Audio CD

Once you've ripped your favorite songs, you can arrange and burn them to a custom audio CD.

To burn a custom audio CD, you first create a playlist, which is a list of songs arranged in the order that you want to store them on the audio CD. Once you have created your playlist, you can burn all songs in that playlist to a CD.

Note

Most audio CDs can store approximately 80 minutes of music.

Here's how to burn an audio CD:

1. Start iTunes. (Click the iTunes icon on the Dock or double-click the iTunes icon in the Applications folder.)

2. Select File ▸ New Playlist. An untitled playlist appears in the Playlists category in the left pane of iTunes window.

3. Type a descriptive name for your playlist and press return.

4. Hold down the key and click ...