Most people eventually owned CD writer drives, and some fancy ones came with the feature of etching pictures in the unused portions of the disc. Haven’t got a fancy drive and desire an etched CD-R?

Do you want to perk up your music collection? If you have a computer, you can create, in less than an hour, a CD that you can play on your stereo. Maybe you want to make a mood mix to capture that ...

I have bought the Memorex 40MAXX 1248AJ CD-RW drive (40x12x48). When I go to burn a cd-r, it says that "buffer underrun protection" has been enabled and starts writing at 12X. The CD-R I put in is ...

However, unlike modern storage platforms like a pen drive, which you simply plug into your computer and copy files to, you were required to burn the CD to move any data onto it. But what exactly ...

That’s the situation [Chad Boughton] recently found himself in, so he decided to build a compact CD player that could discreetly connect up to his fancy Klipsch speaker. The optical drive itself ...

If your files don’t burn to a disc, ensure the disc and drive are compatible. Use a disc type your drive supports, like DVD-R or CD-R. Check for software updates or try different burning software.

You always had a techie friend with a CD Drive who could make a mix CD for you ... having the ability and the software to burn the CD. And you could not skip the love note either.