Making Music CD's Using Your MP3 Files
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Would it be great to play your downloaded MP3 files
or WMA music on your home stereo or your portable CD player? With Music Match Jukebox it is fairly easy. (You can get a free version) So get together your MP3 and WMA music files that you would like to put on CD and lets get started!
Step One
Download to your computer a copy of Music Match Jukebox at Music Match.com The
free version is great for most purposes, but if you are really into this, the plus version has
more features and will burn the CD's much quicker.
Step Two
Close any programs you may have running including your email and any browsers.
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Step Three
Open Music Match and see if the files you want to copy to CD are listed in the library. If
not simply click on the button labeled 'add to library' and wait as it searches your hard drive for all music files, including MP3 files.
Step Four
If the play list is not empty simply click on the button labeled clear. Now drag the MP3
files you want to burn from the Library to the play list window, which is in the upper right hand corner. Just drag each item up or down to rearrange the track order.
Step Five
After you have chosen all the tracks you would liked burned on this CD simply insert a
blank, recordable CD in to your CD recorder.
Step Six
Click Burn
Step Seven
Music Match automatically calculates the total usable space on your blank CD and if you
have too many tracks it will let you know so you can take some off.
Step Eight
If you did not have too many tracks your CD should now be burning. This can take 2-20
minutes depending on your recorder speed. Try not to use your computer until the CD is
completed to keep it from having corrupt songs.
Step Nine
Your MP3 files should now be in there new format and ready to use in your home stereo or portable CD player. Enjoy you new CD! Congratulate yourself on leaning something new today!!
Extra Tips
1) If your computer has been running for a long time it would be a best to restart it before
burning a CD.
2) Music Match has a volume leveling feature which will correct some files from being
louder than others. To use it simply click, Options-Recorder-settings and then check the
box labeled 'prepare tracks for volume leveling'.
3) Be sure to only use CD-R blanks because many music CD players can't read CD-RW
disks.
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