Burn baby burn

[wildestranger]

More silly questions.

How do I burn a cd? My previous laptops have been too old and decrepit to handle such exciting things, but the nice young gentleman at the shop assured me that my new one would burn not only cds, but also dvds.

But how does one go about doing that? I was hoping the macbook would come with much more instructions...

ETA: It just imported a cd in about two minutes. I am...I am unaccustomed to such speed. *loves new laptop*

Comments

[apple-pi.livejournal.com]

What I love is Handbrake, a shareware burning program. I use it to burn DVDs, put the movie files on my iPod, then plug the iPod into the TV and watch. :-)

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

If you want to burn it to play in a CD player, you can that in iTunes.
Set up the play list you want and select it, insert the blank CD, then there's a picture on the top of the iTune frame like a camera eye, which when you click it, turns into a "burn CD" button.

To burn mp3s, you have to close iTunes, insert the blank CD, select 'data' or 'mp3' I think, when the dialogue box shows up. Then drag the mp3s from the Music-iTunes Music folders (where they should be in artist-album folders beware of 'various artists' and 'compliations'). Then eject the CD, and it should burn it.

DVDs as discs work the same way. But I'm not sure how to burn movie DVDs to play in DVD players.

Also, this advice is not guaranteed.