How do I record my MP3 files on a CD so that they can be played on any regular CD player?

Question

Please provide clear instructions (as I am inexperienced at this kind of thing), as well as the exact type of hardware/software that will be needed. If you have a link to a site that provides easy to understand instructions, you could provide that as well.
As a bonus, could you also tell me what the key difference is when recording to CD to play on a regular CD player vs. recording to play on a computer only. Thank you.

Answer 1

Use a CD burning program such as Nero or Easy CD Creator and choose the audio CD option. Windows media player will also burn audio Cd's. They automatically convert them to wave files which is the format that is used on standard audio Cd's

Answer 2

do you have Nero or Roxio if so you already have it
if the CD player that you want to play the files on does not support mp3 then you will have to select to burn in CD audio format before you press burn( you will not be able to fit very many songs on each CD (about 10 to 23 songs) . with mp3 you would get many more songs ( maybe even 100 or so per CD if you chose the right bit rate but they would sound worse then FM radio) it might be a good idea if you also selected to normalize all tracks before you select to burn that way the volume of your songs be more even ( one being quiet and then the next being load) hope this helps
( if you gave more details it would be easier to give more better and step by step solution)

Answer 3

you can insert the blank cd into the drive, open my computer and drag and drop all the mp3 files onto the drive... when you are done right click on the drive and click on write the files now.....when the wizard prompts select data disk instead of music cd.... thats it.... the difference is that your computer can recognize more number of files because it has more and more drivers installed as you use it... but your cd player will have only the manufacturers drivers, which is limited....