How can I burn a CD without software?

Question

I don't have any CD burning software on my computer but I do have a CD/DVD burner. How can I get the files to burn to CD without the software or where can I download FREE software?

Answer 1

Well if you are using win xp or win vista, you don't need an extra software. All you would do is just to drag and drop the files on the cd/dvd driver icon. After you are finished with this task, you are supposed to click on "Write the files on the CD" (or something like that- i am using the Turkish version of windows xp) on the left side of the screen.That is all!

However if you are going to use it for more complex actions (recording vcd, audio cd or etc.), you would definetly need an extra software, which i would recommend NERO.
thanks

Answer 2

A good burning software I recommend is Ashampoo Burning. It's 100% free and can be downloaded here: http://bit.ly/1lAUjB1

If you want to create a DVD that works on a common DVD player, you definitely need a burning software. Copying the files of the movie as is won't work (If you do so your DVD player will not be able to play the video/movie properly). Ashampoo is a good option for every "burning need". It's reliable and professional, It can be used both for CDs and DVDs and it's very easy to use.

Answer 3

you are able to burn some document types by capacity of perfect clicking and sending to CD. this might make a "queue" on your CD Rom and you in straightforward terms burn from there. so a great way as actual participant, I dont be attentive to in case you are able to burn with that or not, I dont use it. i take advantage of nero to burn DVD's and such. while you're burning music you need to use homestead windows media participant. i might advise searching for some burning classes. in case you like, digital mail me and that i will make it easier to be attentive to the place to get some.

Answer 4

i do it without any soft where except a media play for music. you can cut and then paste things in then it shod be a temporally file you then press burn to disk for the drive likely D: or E: or some other latter. this only with xp it might be easyer or harder with 98 or other ones.

Answer 5

Use itunes it works great

Answer 6

This work well for me.


http://cdburnerxp.se/

Answer 7

get it here


http://www.nero.com/nero7/enu/nero7-demo.php

Also you do not allow email !

Answer 8

You don't need third party CD burning software to burn a music, video, or data CD in any version of Windows, be in Windows XP or Vista.

Basically, all you need to burn a music CD is the music file(s), a CD/DVD drive, and Windows Media Player. You actually don't even need WMP, you could burn it just with your CD drive.

Do you already have the files on your hard drive, or do you need to upload the files to it? I am also assumming you wish to burn a music CD, but these steps work with any type of file extensions.

If you have to first place the music onto your hard drive, into a folder, do one of these things:

Download the files from the website you wish to aquire them from.

Rip the music from a physical CD in your possession.

Transer your music files from a network strogage device, or from another computer on your network in shared folders. If transfering from a Share, make sure you do a copy, not a move, or one or both of these results could occur:
1. If you move a file from one NTFS drive to another NTFS drive, the NTFS permissions on the destination drive becomes the default of the moved file(s) and you become the Creator/Owner, which means you have full access control to it and can change permissions, delete, give ownership to somebody else, etc. The original file is deleted from its original location.
2. If you move from a location on one NTFS drive to a location on the same NTFS drive the file(s) retains its original permissions and you become the Creator/Owner, and the original file(s) are deleted. It is this action which causes the biggest problems with Shares as this retention of permissions causes "access denied" on what seems to be a Shared folder and files.

If you Copy the file(s) from a network location or another computer, then the folder/file(s) picks up the permissions of the destination folder, you become the Creator/Owner and the original folder/files(s) stay where they were.

Getting in the habit of always performing a Copy procedure when transfering data or multimedia files is by far the easiest method of ensuring the lowest occurance of mistakes which can lead to odd "access denied" errors, and lost data. If you want to be rid of the original folder/file(s) after the transfer, simply go back to the origianl location and delete the objects after the transfer was sucessfully completed.

If you are unsure how to take music off of a CD and place it onto your hard drive, or (Rip) follow these easy steps:

Place your music CD onto the tray of your CD/DVD drive.

Autoplay is a feature which enables a user to dictate how different files are dealt with when inserted into a CD/DVD drive. Each type of file(s) can have a different action carried out when inserted.

A music CD can automatically open into your default media player and begin playing or ripping music. Or, AutoPlay will open a dialog box and offer a menu of choices, which you can configure your CD/DVD drive to offer you each time you insert any type of media into that drive. To configure your CD/DVD drives AutoPlay feature do this:

Open either My Computer (XP), or Computer, (Vista). Right click on your CD/DVD drive icon and select Properties. Select the AutoPlay tab. Uncheck the "Select an action to perform" if checked. This allows you to select an option. You can do one of two things:

1. Select your prefered application for each type of material and the action you wish it to take. For example: click the drop down menu arrow and select Music files. Then in the box with applications choose the program and action you wish the program to take each time you insert that type of media into your drive. Do this for each category of files in the drop down box.

2. At the bottom of the box place a check mark in the "Prompt me each time to choose an action" box.

Number one will configure your drive to perform the selected item and action each time the media is inserted into the drive. Number two will pop up a dialog box very simular to the one on the AutoPlay dialog box, and allow you to choose the action you want to take at that time when you insert a CD into your drive.

Now, if you wish to Rip music from a music CD, pop it into the drive and you will either be prompted for an action or it will perform the action your predefined in the AutoPlay dialog box in the Properties dialog box on the CD/DVD drive. If you choose to be prompted a window will open and choose which option you want to take.

You most likely have WMP installed, and probably also have one or more media players as well, such as Real Player, QuickTime player, iTunes, Rhapsody Music Jukebox, etc. You should have a couple of options, such as Play, and Rip, with the icon of the application in front of it.

Select the application with the Rip action. The player will open and you will be given an opportunity to choose the tracts you wish to Rip from the CD. You can often configure the player to always begin Ripping ALL of the music tracts, or to wait until you have made your selections. Just accept the default location the tracts and album info will be stored in which will be your My Documents/Documents (if Vista). The player will begin Ripping while playing a tract.

After you get the basics down you can practice this with different players and made configuration choices based on your preferences after you get the feel for this.

If you have transfered the music from another computer and placed it into your Music folder, it should be available in all of the players for you to play, or Burn.

After the Rip is complete, your CD should automatically eject. If it does not, click on File menu and select Eject. This is another option you can select in preferences or options on any of the players installed on your system.

The next step is to Burn the music onto another disk. All you need to do is drag your music to the area of the player that allows you to compile a Play List or a Burn List. The player should have a Tab which has Burn on it. Click whichever button you need to get into that area of the player. If you need assistance open Help and read up on it. It is really very simple, regardless of how much I have typed here. Once you do this a time or two you will wonder why you ever thought it would be difficult. Honestly!

Once you have selected all the music tracts you wish to Burn to the disk, simply click Burn, and a progress meter should keep you informed of progress. It could be on each seperate tract, as in WMP, or a dialog box showing a green line slowly moving along in its progress with the name of the current tract being burned and other information.

Now, if you truly do not have any media player on your system, you can download several for free. Go to the Microsoft Downloads website at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/Browse.aspx?displaylang=en&categoryid=4

Here is the link for Realplayer:

http://realplayer.com/

Apple's QuickTime and iTunes:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/

Now, if you are wanting to burn a data CD, or photo CD, you do not need any special software, Windows has the ability to do this for you.

All you need to do is transfer whatever files you want to your CD/DVD burner folder, then click Burn these files to Disk.

In transfering you need to know a couple of things. First, open both the folder which contains the data you want to burn and the CD/DVD drive folder. Open the drive by clicking on My Computer/Computer, locate the icon for your drive and double click on it. It opens in folder view with nothing in it.

Next transfer your files to the burner folder. You can do so in one of three ways: Drag and drop, Copy and Paste, or right click and select Sent To and then the drive you wish to send them to. You can select multiple items by holding down Ctrl and clicking each item you want, then right click on one of the selected items and make you selection. You can select multiple items in this manner for any of the methods of transfering the data to the CD/DVD drive folder.

Now, your drive does not tell you the amount of items you have in the folder. You have to be sure you don't have too much in the folder because Windows does not allow for putting aside the portion which is over the CDs limit and do a second burn with the left over items. The best method of checking to see how much space the items will require on the CD, after you have selected the items and before you have transfered them, right click on one item, select Properties, and on the General Tab you will see the size those files are.

Also, Windows can not burn what is referred to as "metadata". Metadata is extra information attached to a file, such as the data a photo was taken, the camera it was taken with, the exposure, the format, etc. These items are not tranferable, and you will receive a dialog box stating certain data will be lost if you continue the process. Don't worry, you don't need this data anyway for the burn. Just click OK, to continue and if you wish you can place a check mark in the box which says, "don't show me this dialog box again for this action" or simular wording of this type.

Once you have determined how many files you can fit onto the CD and have them transfered to the CD folder, just click Burn these files to disk. and the process will begin, once it is finished it will eject the disk.

To ensure that the disk ejects, go into the properties for your drive and click on the Recording tab, then select "eject disk when finished" or simular wording, depending on your hardware.

If you are already done burning and it did not eject, just click on File--Eject, or Right click on a blank area of the folder and select Eject.

This is the basic, but major steps in burning items to disk. If you want more detailed information you can easily receive it in either the Help files on your system, or on any of the websites of the software you decide to use.

You can also decide to use other software programs for these tasks. I like the Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite, which you can purchase from Sonic. This company also offers a free trial where you can get the feel for the software and decide if you wish to purchase it. If you wish to purchase it just go to the website, make your purchase and put the activation key into the program when prompted. If you go past the end of the trial period without purchasing it, you will lose functionality of most features, but the most basic ones will still work.

Sorry to go on, but even though this is basically simple, you really needed to know what I included here. This is the most basic instructions for burning differnt types of media and how to do so without purchasing software.

Good luck and have a nice afternoon.