How can I burn MP3s from my computer onto CD-Rs?
MP3 music files are great when you are sitting at your computer. If you have one of the portable MP3 players, it is also easy to carry MP3s with you and listen to them through headphones. But if you want to play MP3 files in your car and your car has a CD player in it, or if you want to play them on your home stereo, then what you need to do is move your MP3 files onto a CD. To create a CD from MP3 files, you need to do three things: • You need to download the MP3 files you want to listen to onto your computer. You can get MP3 files from places like mp3.com. • As described in How MP3 Files Work, an MP3 file is a compressed version of a CD track. You therefore need to expand the MP3 file back into a full-size CD track. This process is known as decoding, and you need to have decoding software on your computer to do it. You can purchase a decoding package or download free or trial software from the Internet. • You then collect all of the CD tracks together in a direc
