Creating an Audio CD

Basically, there are no significant differences between creating an audio CD and creating a data CD. Proceed as follows:

  1. Select File+New Audio CD Project from the main menu.

  2. Drag and drop the individual audio tracks to the project folder. The audio data must be in WAV or Ogg Vorbis format. Determine the sequence of the tracks by moving them up or down in the project folder.

  3. If necessary, change the start and end offset of the audio source. Right-click and choose Edit Source.... Correct the start and end offset and proceed with Ok.

  4. Click Burn to open the dialog window.

  5. Specify the parameters to adjust burning speed and other options. When burning audio CDs, choose a lower burning speed to reduce the risk of burning errors and improve longevity of your media.

    When you mix your audio CD with tracks from different albums, in most cases recording levels vary. You can adjust the volume in the Advanced tab with the Normalize volume levels option.

  6. Start the actual burning process using Burn.

The previous procedure is useful in most cases. However, you can improve your audio CD with the help of CD Text. With the help of CD Text, you are able to add certain text information to a CD (such as CD title, artist name, and track name). CD players that support this feature can read and display this information. To add CD text information to your audio tracks, select the track first. Right-click and select Properties and enter your information in the window that opens. You can also download track information from the Internet by clicking Query Cddb.