Copying CD's with a Burner

A long time ago if you wanted to have your favorite band's CD, you had to buy it from your record store or buy it online. A lot of CD's cost around $10. If you were someone who just couldn't afford to buy all the CDs you wanted, you would just wait until they played it on the radio.

Then came those music shareware sites like Napster that made it really easy and cheap to download your favorite songs. You just store the songs on the computer's hard drive and add it to your MP3 player if you wanted.

If you wanted to transfer your downloaded files to a CD, all you needed was a CD burner which now comes will all new computers.

CD burners come in 2 forms, internal and external. Many people are probably more familiar with the internal burners that are housed in your computers tower. The external drive though, as the name implies, lives on the outside of your computer. You just connect it to your computer through a USB port. The both work the same though.

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.

You can also buy better quality software like Nero and Roxio. The free software burns just the same as the ones that will cost you money but the better quality software will of course give you more features and ease of use.

Some people may think that a CD burner only copies songs or other audio files but this of course isn't true. You can also burn other files, programs, video, games, etc. Your options are unlimited. It's a wonder how we ever managed with out our CD burners.

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