Burning your own audio CDs with iTunes 
If your Macintosh has a CD burner that works with iTunes, you can burn your own audio CDs.
If your Macintosh has an internal CD-RW drive or SuperDrive, you can burn your own audio CDs containing the songs you add to a playlist. Some external CD burners may also work with iTunes. You can listen to the audio CDs you create in iTunes in most consumer CD players and on your computer.
iTunes converts the songs to standard audio files before writing them to the CD. You can fit about 74 minutes of music, or about 20 songs, on a 650 MB CD-R disc. Some discs allow 80 minutes (700 MB) of music.
If you plan to play the CD on a consumer CD player, you need to use a blank CD-R disc, not a CD-RW disc.
It takes several minutes to write an audio CD. You can cancel the burn by clicking the X next to the progress bar, but since you can only use CD-R discs once, you might not be able to use the CD after canceling.
The songs you burn to CD sound as good as they do in iTunes. Songs you download from the Internet may be encoded differently, so their quality may be different.
You can also make high-quality audio CDs with iTunes.
If you encounter any difficulty burning an audio CD, find out how to troubleshoot in this informative article.
If your Macintosh has an internal CD-RW drive or SuperDrive, you can burn your own audio CDs containing the songs you add to a playlist. Some external CD burners may also work with iTunes. You can listen to the audio CDs you create in iTunes in most consumer CD players and on your computer.
iTunes converts the songs to standard audio files before writing them to the CD. You can fit about 74 minutes of music, or about 20 songs, on a 650 MB CD-R disc. Some discs allow 80 minutes (700 MB) of music.
- From the iTunes menu, choose Preferences.
- Make sure Audio CD is selected in the CD Burning tab.
- Click OK.
- Select the playlist you want to burn to the CD.
- You can only burn a CD from the songs in a playlist. Click here for steps to create a playlist.
- If a playlist contains any songs purchased from the iTunes Store, you can only burn the same playlist 7 times.
- You can only burn a CD from the songs in a playlist. Click here for steps to create a playlist.
- Click the Burn Disc (or Burn CD) button.
- Insert a blank CD-R disc in your Mac.
- Click Burn Disc (or Burn CD) again.
If you plan to play the CD on a consumer CD player, you need to use a blank CD-R disc, not a CD-RW disc.
It takes several minutes to write an audio CD. You can cancel the burn by clicking the X next to the progress bar, but since you can only use CD-R discs once, you might not be able to use the CD after canceling.
The songs you burn to CD sound as good as they do in iTunes. Songs you download from the Internet may be encoded differently, so their quality may be different.
You can also make high-quality audio CDs with iTunes.
If you encounter any difficulty burning an audio CD, find out how to troubleshoot in this informative article.
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