Burn DVD CD (Data and Audio) with Windows Media Player 12
A tutorial on how to burn DVD or burn CD in Windows 7 with Windows Media Player 12? You can burn Data DVD or CD or audio CD using the inbuilt CD DVD burning feature.
In windows 7 Windows Media Player 12, you can create a data CD, an audio CD or even a data DVD! Microsoft has including the feature to burn a CD or DVD in windows media player as it is particularly useful to select a list of songs from the WMP 12 Library and burn them to audio CDs that you can carry and use anywhere!!!
A data CD can serve as a backup for all your important data files. You can also store in pictures, documents and even music. While a data CD has a capacity of 700 MB, an audio CD has a capacity of as much as 80 minutes of music. You can also burn a data DVD that can store music, documents and pictures and has large capacity of 4.7 GB.If you require even more space, then you can opt for a Blu-ray disc which has a capacity of around 50 GB.
There are also free software to rip DVD or rip blu ray DVD or download audio from youtube video” which can then be burned on to a CD or Data DVD or CD.
How to burn an audio CD in windows 7?
- Go to “Start” menu, and then to “All Programs” and click on “Windows Media Player”. If the Player is already open, then switch from the ‘Now Playing’ mode to the ‘Library’ mode. Go to the Burn tab and Select the ‘Burn’ option on the right side of the pane
- Click on ‘Options’. It is set in the Audio CD mode by default
- Insert a blank CD-R disc into your CD burner.If the auto-play dialog box appears, close it.If your computer has more than one CD drive, click the drive you want to use in the navigation pane.
- Now start locating the files in the windows media player library, that you want to burn on your CD. Keep an eye on the size of the files when you drag them from the details pane on the left to the burn list.
- You can change the order in which the songs appear by simply dragging one above the other. If you wish to remove any song from the burn list, then right click on it and select the ‘Remove from list’ option.
- Now click on the “Start Burn” option.
- Do not close the program or shut down your computer as it may lead to the data getting corrupted.
How to burn a Data DVD or CD in windows 7?
A data CD can contain music files, documents as well as pictures. A data CD or DVD can store more hours of music in comparison to an audio CD. In case of a data CD, Windows Media Player does not change the file formats before storing them on a data disc. The files are compressed and that means that you can save a large number of tracks, pictures or doc files.
The only disadvantage of burning a data CD or DVD instead of an audio CD is that the data CD or DVD must be capable of playing the file types on the disc. For example, if all of your songs are in the WMA format and your car CD player only supports MP3 files, you’ll need to use another program to convert them to the MP3 format, add the MP3 files to your Player Library, and then use the Player to burn them to a data CD.
- Open the Windows Media Player
- Insert a blank CD or DVD
- Select the “Burn” tab in the player library
- Go to ‘Option’ and select Data CD or DVD
- Similar to burning an audio disc, select the files to be burned for the data CD
- You can reorder the files by simply dragging them or even delete the ones that you wish. Right click on the files and click on ‘Remove from List’.
- Click on the ‘Start Burn’ option
- After the burning process is complete, select the “Eject disc after burning” so that the disc automatically comes out from the drive
That is it! Remember to not close the program or shut down your computer while the burning process is on as it may lead to the data getting corrupted.
