The CD Burner

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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 can come in two forms, external and internal. The external ones don?t even need to be connected to your CPU and you only need a USB port to connect it to your computer. The internal CD burner that most people may be familiar with is connected to you CPU and lives inside your computer tower.

A nice thing about a CD burner is you can burn songs from one CD to another or burn songs off of your hard drive.

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.

Tags: Hardware