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Years ago if you wanted to own a band’s CD, you had to buy it in a record store or purchase it online and with the cost around $10, it adds up. If you were like me, you couldn’t afford to buy all the CD’s you wanted so you just waited for them to be played on the radio.

A few years later a great site like Napster game to be and you could download all the songs you wanted for nothing. You just saved it to your hard drive and transferred it to an MP3 player.

Now if you want to transfer all those songs to a CD so you could listen to them in your car, you only need one thing - a CD burner. Every computer comes with one now.

CD burners come in 2 forms, internal and external. Many people are probably more familiar with the internal burners that are housed in your computers tower. The external drive though, as the name implies, lives on the outside of your computer. You just connect it to your computer through a USB port. The both work the same though.

You may think you can only burn songs from your hard drive to your CD but this isn’t true. Your CD burner will copy another CD also. If your friend has a CD you’ve been wanting, just borrow it and copy their CD to yours. What a great technology!

For a CD burner to work, you need software to run it. Most computers will come with software like Windows Media Player but if you want good quality software, you can buy Nero or Roxio which burns just the same as your free Windows Media player but they just offer more options and flexibility.

If you just can’t afford to spend money on software for your burner, you still have a few good options when it comes to the free software. Two better free options to look for are Deep Burner or ISO Recorder.

Some people may think that a CD burner only copies songs or other audio files but this of course isn’t true. You can also burn other files, programs, video, games, etc. Your options are unlimited. It’s a wonder how we ever managed with out our CD burners.