Jim, I can't add anything regarding your individual burners but notice that you mention you have Roxio EasyCD v.5/basic). I have the Platinum version which I assume has a few more features but the basic should do everything you want. Choose "Make a Data CD" from the menu. Then select your CD Drive as the source. If you are connected to the internet you can then click on "Name" and it will look up the CD Title and song information in the database. After that highlight the Songs/Tracks that you want to convert and click on "Convert". You will be presented with a "Save AS" dialog box with numerous choices regarding the file types/formats/removing silence from the beginning or end/merging tracks/setting start and end points. I'm certainly no expert with this but have used it to make Music CDs, Data disks with MP3 and/or JPG picture files and an MP3 disk. The MP3 disk may also be an option that you want to look at. On my version of Roxio it is one of the sub choices when selecting "Music CD" from the main menu. You may have to use trial & error if you don't have a manual but the help files are pretty good. Also when in doubt or if you can't find something try highlighting a song/track and the right clicking on it for additional information/choices. Good Luck, Joe -----Original Message----- From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of James Maki Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 2:52 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Creation and use of MP3 music files Thanks to all that replied and the software suggestions and helpful hints. I downloaded CDex, but had trouble getting it to work with my CDROM/CDRW. I have a Samsung ATAPI CDRW that it would not recognize. It also would not recognize my older TEAC SCSI CDROM. It would only work with my YAMAHA SCSI CDRW. I was able to rip a song, so the software did work. I then moved on to dbPoweramp. It recognized all three drives and allowed me to rip a track from the ATAPI Samsung CDRW. I still need to try burning the songs to a CD (I have Roxio EasyCD v.5/basic). On a second computer I have a Liteon CDRW (48x24x48x) that came with a version of Nero that will only work on that drive. Any advise on the relative merits of the Samsung SW248b (48x16x48x) with EasyCD creator vs. the Liteon (am am unsure of the actual model number) with Nero? Thanks for the help and looking forward to additional comments. Jim [log in to unmask] > -----Original Message----- > > > > 1 - Is is possible to store the mp3 on a CD and then play them on the > computer? > 2 - If so, what software is required (Both to create the mp3 and > to store to > a cd)? > 3 - How many songs could I expect to store on a single CDR? > 4 - Any pitfalls I should be aware of to make this process go smoothly? > > Thanks for any advice, > > Jim > [log in to unmask] PCSOFT's List Owner's: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>