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How do I burn a CD on a Mac 2020?

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How do I burn a CD on a Mac 2020?

Create a CD or DVD

  1. In the Music app on your Mac, create a playlist that contains the songs or files you want to burn to the disc.
  2. Choose View > as Songs and make sure the items you want to include have a checkmark beside them.
  3. Insert a blank disc.
  4. Select the playlist, then choose File > Burn Playlist to Disc.

Why won’t my Mac let me burn cds?

If your CD burn is unsuccessful and your external drive becomes unresponsive, turn the drive off and on to reset it. To create an audio CD, make sure you have an Apple Combo drive or SuperDrive. After you choose File > Burn Playlist to Disc, if your drive is shown next to CD Burner, it’s compatible.

How do I burn a CD on my Mac without a CD drive?

Option 1: Get an External Drive You can leave a drive like this on your desk at home or take with you in your laptop bag. Apple offers their own external drive known as the Apple USB SuperDrive. It plugs into a Mac via a USB cable and allows you to both read and write CDs and DVDs.

What do I need to burn a CD?

What you will need

  1. CD-burner. It should be either inbuilt and come with your PC/laptop or an external one that you connect via USB-cable.
  2. A recordable CD-R or CD-RW.
  3. Special software capable of burning music and data CDs.

Do Macs have CD slots?

All iMacs come with an optical drive, which Apple calls a SuperDrive. Unlike drives that have a tray that extends from the computer, the SuperDrive consists of a slot into which you insert a disk. The iMac’s optical drive can read CDs, CD data disks, DVDs and DVD data disks.

Do you need a blank CD to burn a CD?

Burning a Music CD on Windows. Insert a blank CD into your computer’s disk drive. Make sure that the CD is blank before doing this. If the CD has been used before, you’ll need to erase the CD first.

How do I burn a CD from my computer?

To write files to a CD or DVD:

  1. Place an empty disc into your CD/DVD writable drive.
  2. In the Blank CD/DVD-R Disc notification that pops up at the bottom of the screen, select Open with CD/DVD Creator.
  3. In the Disc Name field, type a name for the disc.
  4. Drag or copy the desired files into the window.
  5. Click Write to Disc.

Do any MacBooks have a disc drive?

The last Apple Mac to ship with an optical CD or DVD drive was a 13in MacBook Pro, originally released in June 2012, but on sale until October 2016, when Apple discontinued that model, more information about the last Mac to ship with a SuperDrive below. Since that date Apple has not sold any Macs with optical drives.

Why did Apple get rid of CD drives?

Something had to give: portability or optical media. The industry followed Apple’s example and figured it needed to remove built-in CD/DVD drives to enable thin notebook designs, such as this Series 9 Ultrabook from Samsung.

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