copying music cd

pennymakespounds

i'm very untechie !.. so hope i make sense here ....

my dell laptop uses roxio to copy a music cd (don't know if there are other ways or means or programs on this )...

i've just got a grasp of copying one cd onto a blank cd-r.... but what if i've got a "double cd" .. am i able to put both onto the copy ?..or i suppose same question is ..can you copy more than one cd onto a blank ?

I know when i put the orig in .. i have to click "copy" ..that takes couple of minutes then only option is to then put in blank and click " copy" .

is it a case that if i've done that once ... if i then put in another original....and copy that .. am i able to burn it onto the blank to follow on from the first one i did .

hope i make sense !!

thanks

ckerrd

As long as there are no copyright issues - the answer is yes.

Windows media player will do it as well.

Just rip the cd or cds to the library then make a playlist and burn that to another cd.

Donnie

Just don't expect to be able to play the finished product in every CD player.

Before you 'rip'(compress/convert) your CD to another format, you may have to enter, Tools-Options within Media Player to ensure that it is being converted to a suitable format. The most compatible being .mp3.
Even so, not every stand-alone CD player will play .mp3 files. In this case, you could mix and match songs from your newly formed .mp3 library and convert them back to CD Audio, but you would be limited to a maximum of 80 mins per CD.

pennymakespounds

will find some time asap to investigate windows media player .

thanks guys

Little_John

Im not going to tell you how to write audio cd's the software you have has wizards to perform this from ripped music stored on your PC, and media player will also create cd's but I will ad some usefull information.

You will also need to take in to account the length of the CDs you are wanting to put on a single cd.

A standard CDr is either 74 minutes or 80 minutes in length. Your double CD is possibly 74 minutes each so you will need to choose which tracks you want to put on your copied cd, double albums are normally compilations and fill the cds so mergeing them all on to 1 disk isnt possible.

It is also possible to buy 90 minute CDr but they tend to be expensive compared to 74 and 80's but you still wont get 2 full cd's on to one. Albums like Now thats what I call music often use over 80 minutes on a single cd to prevent copying.

rockabilly_spike

buy the cd, support artists cos musicians like to be paid for their work the same as everyone else in the world.

superscaper

rockabilly_spike wrote: »

buy the cd, support artists cos musicians like to be paid for their work the same as everyone else in the world.

Well I'm assuming OP is merely backing up for themselves. Although that's also illegal as is ripping to mp3, just not something BPI intend to prosecute which is probably why it's allowed on these forums.

bat999

Hi pennymakespounds

What the others are telling you is that instead of just copying one CD onto a blank CD-R you can do it differently.

In two stages.

First copy the tracks from as many CDs as you like onto your computer's hard drive.

Then put in a blank CD-R.

Then select the tracks you want from the hard drive and copy them onto the blank CD-R.

You can choose which tracks you want and which order you want them to play.

You can choose as many tracks as you like as long as they don't add up to more than 80 minutes.
:cool:

Donnie

That's not what we are telling him/her.

There were two options specified. One is as you mentioned, the other to use .mp3 compression in order to fit many more tracks(over 100 at 192kbs) on to a single CD.

pennymakespounds

thanks everyone . i'm going to experiment with the windows media player .

absolutely only doing it for myself ... i keep originals in the house .. and occassionally..on really favourite cd's .. do a copy you keep in my car. .. that's what made me query double cd's .. but also i was trying to think of doing compliation ones just of my favourites.

cheers

ps .. don't buy many cd's .. but apart from quidco... always use https://www.find-cd.co.uk ... which always instantly finds the lowest prices .