How to copy music to and from an audio CD in Windows XP

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

This post describes how to copy music from an audio CD to the computer's local hard disk by using Windows Media Player (WMP). You can then copy the data back to an audio CD if you want to. This post provide windows media player support to copy data from CD to Hard Drive.

Copy music files from an audio CD

1. Insert the Audio CD and start Windows Media Player.
2. If WMP is in Skin mode, press CTRL+1 to view WMP in Full mode.
3. Click Copy from CD. Or, on the File menu, you can click Copy, click Copy from Audio CD, and then choose the drive from which you want to copy.
4. Click to select each audio file that you want to copy. By default, all files that you have not already copied are selected.
5. Click Copy Music. This copies the file into the My Documents\My Music folder by default.


Copy audio files from the hard disk to an audio CD

1. In Windows Explorer, choose the files that you want to copy to the audio CD, and then click the Copy to Audio CD Web View task.
2. In WMP, verify that the files that you wish to copy are in the playlist and that they are selected.
3. Click Copy Music.

Note: You can copy .wma, .mp3, and .wav file types to an audio CD.

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