Your Computer's CD Burner

Years ago if you wanted to own a band's CD, you had to buy it in a record store or purchase it online and with the cost around $10, it adds up. If you were like me, you couldn't afford to buy all the CD's you wanted so you just waited for them to be played 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.

If you wanted to transfer your downloaded files to a CD, all you needed was a CD burner which now comes will all new computers.

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 just can't afford to spend money on software for your burner, you still have a few good options when it comes to the free software. Two better free options to look for are Deep Burner or ISO Recorder.

Some people may think that a CD burner only copies songs or other audio files but this of course isn't true. You can also burn other files, programs, video, games, etc. Your options are unlimited. It's a wonder how we ever managed with out our CD burners.

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