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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.

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!

For a CD burner to work, you need software to run it. Most computers will come with software like Windows Media Player but if you want good quality software, you can buy Nero or Roxio which burns just the same as your free Windows Media player but they just offer more options and flexibility.

If you prefer to stick with the free options, you can download free burner software from the Internet. Some good free options to look for are Deep Burner and 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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