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Playing a CD
A standard Compact Disc (
CD
) can hold an entire album of digital songs and can be played on a
CD player or your computer’s CD drive.
Use a music program or Windows Media Player on your computer to:
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Play music CDs
•
Create MP3 music files from your music CDs
•
Edit music track information
•
Use your music files to build a music library
For more information about playing CDs, see
“Playing music and movies” on page 34
Playing a DVD
A Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) is similar to a standard CD but has greater data capacity. Because
of this increased capacity, full-length movies, several albums of music, or several gigabytes of
data can fit on a single disc. DVDs can be played on a DVD player or a DVD drive-equipped
computer. For more information about playing DVDs, see
“Playing music and movies” on page 34
Playing a Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc is a high-capacity optical disc that can store much more data than a DVD. A dual-layer
Blu-ray Disc can hold 50 GB of files, about 23 hours of standard-definition video, or about nine
hours of high-definition video. Blu-ray Discs can be played on a Blu-ray-compatible player or a
Blu-ray drive-equipped computer. For more information about playing Blu-ray Discs, see
Playing an HD-DVD
HD-DVD is a high-capacity optical disc that can store much more data than a DVD. A dual-layer
HD-DVD can hold 30 GB of files, about 14 hours of standard-definition video, or about 5.5 hours
of high-definition video. HD-DVDs can be played on an HD-DVD-compatible player or an HD-DVD
drive-equipped computer. For more information about playing HD-DVDs, see
.
Recording to optical discs
You can use the disc burning program on your computer to copy tracks from a music CD to your
hard drive, copy or create data discs, create music CDs, create video DVDs, and more. For more
information about creating CDs and DVDs, see
“Creating music CDs and video DVDs” on page 40
Creating audio and video files
You can create audio and music files, either from scratch or from music CDs. You can also create
video files from home video. For more information, see
“Creating audio files and music libraries”
.
Copying optical discs
You can copy optical discs to make backups of your data. For more information, see
and copying data discs” on page 43
Important
Some music CDs have copy protection software. You may not be able to play these
CDs on your computer.
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