In case there are still those on the site that don't know and want to: You obtain a CD-RW. I don't know if you can still get these in stores as I haven't looked in a while, but Amazon definitely has options. (You used to be able to get them at Walmart and Dollar General and all over). Then you put that CD into a computer with a disc writer that can handle CD-RW. This is information you will need to look up in your own computer. It was very common in computers made in the early 2000's. I don't actually know how common it is today. I haven't had occasion to check in a while. Finally you will need a software that can write CD-RW. There are many free options. I usually just used Windows Media player, but there are actually better options if you are concerned about quality (I was a teenager with cheap headphones so, it didn't matter so much to me). It works slightly differently from software to software, but its usually fairly simple to create a playlist.
Once your playlist is set (it will need to have a number of songs/audiofiles that will fit on your CD-RW. They don't have a lot of memory space). Your software should have a button that allows to burn the playlist. This will vary slightly between the options, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out.
Lastly: Label you CD-RW somehow so that you know which one this is later. Otherwise you will find yourself flipping through your CD case going "I have no idea what songs are actually on these."
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I used to use Windows Media Player too. Nero was way too complicated for me.
I'm pretty sure even iTunes will still let you do it. That's what I used after it came out... I forgot what I used before. About half of the CD's I've burned still work, I use them in my car only.
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Yeah. The cds that I have saved, they still work.
I have one CD and on it there is one 1 minute song. Living that rich life y'all.
There was also the difference between CD-R and CD-RW. CD-RW was kind of like a flashdrive, because you could write and overwrite it as much as you wanted. Once you wrote to a CD-R, though, that was it. Better hope you didn't make a mistake in your playlist or you had to buy another CD.
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Oh man was that painful when I didn't know the difference!
When were you born?
Burning DVDs was never particularly common in the United States. This is largely because laws were put into place that made it illegal to digitize your own movies for personal use, and therefore technology to copy and burn DVDs was never really made free and easily accessible.
Piracy of DVDs still happened. But it was far less common than piracy of music. And a lot of piracy of movies has been with streaming movies.
Also, companies eventually realized that it was more profitable to provide a digital copy when people brought a DVD-Blue Ray combo pack as it made people more willing to buy the movie legally.
I was born 1982. (NO ONE DO THE MATH lol)
I also come from dirt poor family.
CD burning, pirating movies/music/games all became a thing my family jumped on that band wagon like I was our best friend lol.
But I personally never fully learned how to do it. I just told my brother what I wanted and he do it.
It's a basic feature now with any windows OS from 7 on up. You just need a blank CD-R or CD-RW and a CD drive. Place CD in drive, open drive drag and drop files to burn select burn at the top of the window. For music just use Windows Media Player it's pretty intuitive nowadays.
My cousins used to burn Age of Empires so the rest of us could play, I don't know how they did it I was young and had older brothers who could do stuff like that for me but it was handy.
Lastly: Label you CD-RW somehow so that you know which one this is later. Otherwise you will find yourself flipping through your CD case going "I have no idea what songs are actually on these."
I have one CD and on it there is one 1 minute song. Living that rich life y'all.
Burning DVDs was never particularly common in the United States. This is largely because laws were put into place that made it illegal to digitize your own movies for personal use, and therefore technology to copy and burn DVDs was never really made free and easily accessible.
Piracy of DVDs still happened. But it was far less common than piracy of music. And a lot of piracy of movies has been with streaming movies.
Also, companies eventually realized that it was more profitable to provide a digital copy when people brought a DVD-Blue Ray combo pack as it made people more willing to buy the movie legally.
I also come from dirt poor family.
CD burning, pirating movies/music/games all became a thing my family jumped on that band wagon like I was our best friend lol.
But I personally never fully learned how to do it. I just told my brother what I wanted and he do it.