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Creating your own audio CDs

To make your own CD, you need:

For more information, click a link below.

To create an audio CD:

  1. Choose iTunes > Preferences, click Advanced, and click Burning.
  2. Select Audio CD as the Disc Format.
  3. To have all the songs on the CD play at the same volume, select Use Sound Check.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Select the playlist containing the songs you want to burn to the CD, and make sure all the songs you want to include on the CD have a checkmark beside them.
  6. Click Burn Disc (at the bottom of the iTunes window) and insert a blank disk.
  7. If the playlist contains more songs than will fit on the CD, iTunes burns only the number of songs that fit on one disc, and then asks you to insert another disc to continue burning the remaining songs.

    If the playlist includes Audible spoken programs with chapter markers, the chapters are burned as separate tracks.

It might take several minutes to burn an audio CD. You can cancel the burn by clicking the X next to the progress bar (but if you're using a CD-R disc, you won't be able to use it again).

If the playlist contains songs purchased from the iTunes Store, you can burn the playlist to a CD up to seven times.

Related Topics

About burning CDs and DVDs

Buying blank CDs and DVDs

Organizing your music and video using playlists

Creating your own MP3 CDs

Changing the gap between songs when you burn a CD

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