Different Types of CD or DVD You Can Burn in Windows Media Player on Windows 8

Copying your media flies – music, pictures, and videos on to a blank CD or DVD is called Burning.

You can burn three kinds of Discs in Windows Media Player. You can either burn Audio CDs, Data CDs, or Data DVDs. The types of CD or DVD you’ll choose depends on the purpose of using them. For example, are you going to copy data on your CD or DVDs? Is the file size you’ll copy are huge? What kind of media you’ll be copying?

This article will help you decide exactly which type of disc if right for you.

1) Audio CD

If you are looking to make your own custom made, then use Audio CD. This will help you to listen to your favorite music tracks either in your car, on your stereo, and on your PC. However, use this CD only to burn music.

An audio CD supports 80 minutes of capacity. Audio CD plays in almost every CD player, including home stereos, car stereos, and PC.

2) Data CD

Data CD can support up to 8 hours of music, a great option if you have a lots of music. If you have a CD player that can play Windows Media Audio (WMS) files, Data CD is the best option for you.

Data CD has 700 mega-bytes of space, which is handy to back-up your essential files from the PC and free up some space. 

You can use Data CD to burn music, pictures, and videos. 

You can play Data CD on PCs and some CD and DVD players. However, the device must support the file types - WMA, MP3, JPEG, or Windows Media Video (WMV) - on your CD. 

3) Data DVD

DVD has a lot of space, up to 4.7 gigabytes (GB), or roughly 54 hours of music. Because of this, data DVD are useful when you have a lot of files to backup, and burn which won’t fit on a single data CD.

You can use DVD to burn music, pictures, and videos.

You can play a data DVD on PCs and some DVD players. Make sure that the device supports the file types that are on the data DVD, such as WMA, MP3, JPEG, and WMV.