Writing Songs to a CD

Now you have a batch of nice individual WAV files, one file per song. Write your songs to a CD with your favorite CD writer application, and you’re done. Don’t burn at the maximum speed, but throttle down to half speed to make sure you get a good disk. Be sure to select “New Audio Project,” or whatever your particular application calls making a music CD, because this creates a CD in the proper Red Book Audio format. Don’t make an ordinary data CD because then it won’t work in standard CD players, like in your vehicle or hi-fi system. Standard CD players can’t play WAV files. (Computer CD players will handle just about anything, because it is all done in software media players.)

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