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Copying CD's with a Burner

Some time ago if you wanted to have your favorite band's new CD, you had to buy it at a record store or buy it online. With the cost averaging around $10 it could end up costing you if you wanted more than just a few CD's. If you couldn't afford to buy all those CD's you just waited for the radio to play it.

A few years later a great site like Napster game to be and you could download all the songs you wanted for nothing. You just saved it to your hard drive and transferred it to an MP3 player.

Since most cars have a CD player, you may have wanted to transfer your downloaded files to a CD. This is when a CD burner came in handy. Just about every computer has one now.

A CD burner comes in two formats, an external drive and an internal drive. Most people are probably familiar with the internal drives that connect to you CPU and is housed in your computer tower. The external drive on the other hand is not connected to the CPU and plugs in to your computer via a USB port.

You may think you can only burn songs from your hard drive to your CD but this isn't true. Your CD burner will copy another CD also. If your friend has a CD you've been wanting, just borrow it and copy their CD to yours. What a great technology!

Now you'll need software to run your CD burner which in most cases comes with your computer in the form of Windows Media Player. If you want something that works better and offers you more options, your best bet is to purchase Nero or Roxio.

If you just can't afford to spend money on software for your burner, you still have a few good options when it comes to the free software. Two better free options to look for are Deep Burner or ISO Recorder.

You might think a CD burner is only capable of copying the songs you downloaded but you can also copy other files. You can just as easily burn other files, videos, mp3s, pictures, etc. Just think how we ever managed to live without this great technology.

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