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- You can play a data CD on PCs and some CD and DVD players. The device must support the file types that you add to the disc, such as WMA, MP3, JPEG, or Windows Media Video (WMV).
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Oct 16, 2015 · A data CD containing for example MP3 or WAV files will play happily on your computer but is unlikely to play in a standalone CD player or in-car CD player (note that some modern CD players will play data CDs).
- Overview
- Different discs you can burn
- What you'll need
- Burn an audio CD (or a data CD or DVD)
- Rip CDs
- Rip music from a CD
- Add or edit media info after ripping
- Change settings for ripping music
When you copy music, pictures, and videos from your PC to a blank CD or DVD, it's called "burning." When you copy music, pictures, and videos from a CD or DVD to your PC, it's called "ripping." You can use Windows Media Player to do both.
With Windows Media Player, you can burn three kinds of discs: audio CDs, data CDs, and data DVDs. To decide which kind of disc you should use, you'll need to think about what you want to copy, how much you're copying, and how you want to play the disc. This table helps you decide what type of disc to use.
Disc type
Description
Audio CD
You'll need two things to get started:
•A CD or DVD recorder drive (also known as a CD or DVD burner).
You can make a CD that stores about 80 minutes of music and will play in almost any CD player. Or you can make a data CD or DVD that can hold several hours of music (or many photos or short video clips) and will play in PCs. A data CD will work in CD players that support the file types copied to the disc.
Here's how to burn an audio CD:
1.Open Windows Media Player.
2.In the Player Library, select the Burn tab, select the Burn options button , and then select Audio CD or Data CD or DVD.
3.Insert a blank disc into your CD or DVD burner.
If your PC has more than one CD or DVD drive, select the drive you want to use.
When you rip music from a CD, you're copying songs from an audio CD to your PC. During the ripping process, the Player compresses each song and stores it on your drive as a Windows Media Audio (WMA), WAV, or MP3 file.
Ripped files are automatically saved to the Music folder, but you can change the location using the options on the Rip settings tab.
Make sure your PC is connected to the Internet if you want Windows Media Player to automatically get info about the songs, such as the name of the CD, the artist, and titles for the tracks being ripped.
1.Open Windows Media Player.
2.Insert an audio CD into the PC's CD drive.
3.Select the Rip CD button .
1.In the Player Library, search for the album or song you want to edit.
2.Right-click the album, and then select Find album info.
3.Do one of the following:
•If the correct album or artist info appears in the search results, select the correct entry, and then follow the instructions on the page to automatically update the album art and media info.
•If the correct album doesn't appear in the search results, follow the instructions on the page to search again using different search criteria, or to manually add the media info.
Notes:
The changes you make apply to new tracks that you rip. You can't use the Player to change the format or audio quality of a song you've already ripped.
1.Open Windows Media Player.
2.Insert a CD into your CD drive.
3.Maximize the Windows Media Player window so you can see all of the menu options, select Rip settings, and then select the setting you want to change.
Jun 15, 2004 · If you have music files in data format, one would presume they're WMA or MP3 files. If so, you should be able to point any decent CD burning application at them and generate audio CD's. If your burning application doesn't handle WMA files, there are a number of conversion utilities to turn them into WAV or MP3 files.
- MP3 CDs can be played in MP3 players and computer CD-ROMs (or any CD player that supports MP3 playback), but not in standard CD players. - MP3 CDs require enough hard drive free space to copy all queued files to a temporary folder before burning.
Dec 15, 2016 · On computers running Windows 10, you use Windows Media Player to play audio CDs, to copy audio files to your computer, and to burn songs onto a CD. If you have a CD or DVD disc drive or slot on your computer, insert a music CD, label side up for horizontal drives.
Jun 14, 2022 · Windows Media Player 11 can extract the digital information from your physical CD and encode it in several digital audio formats. You can then transfer the files to your MP3 player or burn them to an MP3 CD, USB drive, or other media.
Nov 6, 2012 · A Data CD is just files burned on a disk and they are not encoded. For example...if your Car CD Player is compatible with MP3 files... you could burn a Data CD with MP3 files and it would play.
