Yahoo! Music Tutorials

Burning CDs

What Can Be Burned? Preparing to Burn Burning a CD From a Playlist Burning a CD From Now Playing Burning a CD From My Music

What Can Be Burned?

Burning means copying music to a CD for playback using your home, car, or portable CD player. To burn CDs with the Yahoo! Music Jukebox, you need two things:

  • A CD-recordable drive on your computer
  • One or more burnable tracks stored in My Music

You don't have to be a Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscriber to burn CDs using Yahoo! Music Jukebox.

Tip: Yahoo! Music Jukebox Plus includes improvements to help you rip and burn CDs faster, split large playlists automatically, and print CD labels and CD cases. For more information, see the Yahoo! Music Jukebox Plus Help.

 

What Music Is Burnable?

The burnable icon (The burnable icon) next to a song in the My Music display indicates a burnable track.

The burnable icon appears next to burnable tracks.

Two types of music in My Music are burnable:

  • Music that you purchase from Yahoo! Music Unlimited. These songs are also known as burnable downloads.
  • Music you import into My Music from a source other than Yahoo! Music Unlimited, such as from another CD or from your hard drive, is generally burnable. Individual song files, however, may have specific rights and permissions associated with them that could prevent you from copying them to a CD.

For details about how to add burnable music to My Music, see the Adding Music to Your Collection tutorial.

 

What Music Is Not Burnable?

Two other types of music in My Music are not burnable:

  • Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscription music that you haven't actually purchased, even if you’ve downloaded it to your computer, can’t be burned to CD.

    Note: Only Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscribers can download subscription music.

  • Songs that you've bookmarked for streaming from Yahoo! Music Unlimited are also not burnable.

 

What’s Next

Yahoo! Music Jukebox offers several ways to burn CDs. Each approach requires you to prepare your environment for burning.

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Words to Know

  • Burnable download: a song you purchase individually that you can burn to a CD for playback through your home, car, or portable CD player.
  • CD: short for "compact disc", a small, portable medium for electronically recording, storing, and playing back audio, video, text, and other digital information.
  • Import: to copy music from an external source, such as a CD or your computer’s hard drive, into My Music.
  • My Music: your personal music collection in the Yahoo! Music Jukebox, where music that you’ve imported, downloaded, or bookmarked is stored.
  • Subscription music: songs added to My Music from the Yahoo! Music Unlimited library. You have access to this music as long as your subscription is current.
  • Yahoo! Music Unlimited: a collection of more than two million songs, available by subscription and for purchase through the Yahoo! Music Jukebox.