To create your own CD

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Click Copy to CD or Device.
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Click the File menu, point to Copy, and then click Copy to Audio CD.
In the Items to Copy pane, select the playlist or category of tracks that you want to copy from Media Library.
The number of selected items and total time is displayed at the bottom of the Items to Copy pane.
If necessary, clear any check boxes for tracks you do not want to copy.
Insert a blank CD-R or CD-RW in your CD-ROM drive.
In the Items on Device pane, click one of the following:
- Audio CD
- Data CD
- Roxio CD (available only on Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition (Me))
Before tracks are copied to your CD, they are inspected and converted to a file type for your CD. This process takes several minutes.
Click Copy.

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You cannot copy additional tracks to the CD after copying is completed. If you are using a CD-RW, you can erase the CD before using the Player to copy tracks to the CD again.

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Tracks must be in Media Library before you can copy them to a CD. Click the check box at the top of the list to clear or select all the items in the Items to Copy pane. By default, all the tracks in the pane are selected.
Data CDs can play only in some CD players and on computers.
You can copy playlists as well as other files to a data CD and the organization is preserved when you copy files to a data CD.
You can rearrange the order of the tracks in a playlist by dragging them to the position you want them to copy.
To edit a playlist, click the Playlists button, locate the items you want to add and click them. Or click the items you want to delete, and then click the Delete button.
If Will not fit appears in the Status column in the Items to Copy pane for selected tracks, the tracks are not copied to the CD. Will not fit appears for audio CDs even if you have exactly 74 or 80 minutes of audio selected because the Player inserts seconds (spaces) between the tracks that it burns onto a CD.
When you insert the CD you created, information about the track, such as the album name, artist, or genre is displayed only on the computer that you used to create the CD.