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June 25, 2009 2:16 PM PDT

By: Donald Bell

How to make an MP3 CD

So long as you've got a Mac or PC equipped with a CD drive that can both read and write CDs, it's possible to make an MP3 CD directly from your desktop. To do this, just pop in a blank CDR, drag a collection of MP3 files onto the blank CD icon or folder, and burn it as a data CD. Directly burning a disk from your desktop is the way to go if you want the CD to contain nested folders of artists and albums that you can navigate like an MP3 player using the controls on the device you're using to play the CD.

The problem with this method is that not all MP3 CD players support nested folders, and it can be painstaking to go through your collection and verify the files are in the MP3 format.

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