My New Mac, Lion Edition

Burning a Custom Audio CD

Once you’ve ripped your favorite songs, iTunes stores them in your Music library. If you want to create a custom CD, you can arrange and burn them to an 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.

2. Click Music under the Library category in the left pane of the iTunes window. Your entire music collection appears in the right pane of the window.

3. Hold down the key and click each song that you want to burn on the audio CD. ...