Before, owning a copy of your favorite
artist would only mean buying either
from a local music store or online music
sites. And a copy with an average of
16-18 cuts would cost you at least $10.
If you think this is reasonable, then
consider yourself lucky. However, if you
are one of those who cannot afford
buying copies of their favorite artists
and still would want to listen to them,
all you can do is to wait until your
local radio stations play their songs.
If you have the computer and the
Internet connection, you can go to
online music sites with free radio like
the Launchcast, Shoutcast, Live365, and
MSN radio and hope that the song will be
played.
Today, with several music download
shareware programs it is possible to get
your favorite song directly from other
users without actually buying from them.
These programs let you store the songs
you have downloaded to your hard drive
or transfer it to your portable MP3
player.
But for you who would like to keep a
complete collection of the song by
actually storing it to a disc for
archiving or play it to your vehicle of
home entertainment system, there is one
piece of computer peripheral you need:
CD burner.
If you know how CD player looks like
(and I'm sure you do), you would
recognize the CD burner.
CD burner comes into two forms: the
"independent" and the "attached". The
independent CD burners or writable CD
drives do not necessarily have to be
permanently attached on the CPU. It
could be connected through a USB port
with its own power source. The other
type of CD burner is the one that is
attached to the CPU just like the CD ROM
we know for quite some time.
Remember the times cassette players were
only meant to play cassette tapes? Then
came the cassette recorders that enabled
users to copy the content of cassette
tapes to a black one.
The same concept applies with the CD
burner. It could copy from one CD to
another or from a hard drive to a black
CD and vice versa.
But to actually use your CD burner, you
have to have software. Some of these
softwares are available and downloadable
for free online. Examples are ISO
Recorder, DeepBurner, Burrrn, Windows
Media Player, Xduplicator, Cheetah CD
Burner, and more. Other CD burner
softwares could be purchased. While
those for free have the same burning
capability, those that are sold give
more features and flexibility.
CD burners are not limited to audio
copying. It also can copy document
files, programs, games, videos, MP3,
WMA, and WAV files. Not only that, CD
burner with DVD burning capability
enables you to copy you favorite DVD
collection to another CD if in case you
would want to share it to a friend or
keep it in case your original DVD is
lost. You can also burn a DVD movie
after you downloaded it through the
Internet so that you could watch it on
you television or your home theater.
Although many would argue that the
release of the CD burner provides venue
to produce uncopywrited CD's whether
audio or video, there is no question
that CD burner brings the production
technology within the reach of the
consumers. And soon, as technology still
progresses, there would be technology
more advanced to cater the needs of
music and video collectors and
enthusiasts.
Robert Thatcher is a freelance publisher
based in Cupertino, California. He
publishes articles and reports in
various ezines and provides CD burner
resources on [http://www.your-cd-burner.info]
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