A guide for transfering an audio book to Compact Disk
July 3rd, 2009 by admin
When it comes to burning (or copying/writing) a downloadable audio book into CD, you must be sure that it isn’t for commercial purpose, but strictly for personal use. Violating this law can get you into serious copyright infringement problems.
Of course, the audio books you download are still under copyright. Even after you have payed for them as the content still belongs to the publisher.
The only instance where they are no longer under copyright is when the authors or translators have died over 70 years ago. There are also some publications that are made by the government that are not under copyright.
But this rule, "only for personal use" still applies when you are burning any of your downloadable audio book onto CD or any other format.
You won't believe it, but there are even certain audio book publishers that don't allow their audio books to be copied into CD. Such audio book publishers will then choose to disable the ability to transfer the file onto a compact disk.
To be sure if your audio book publishers allow this, check it out before going ahead to buy it.
It would be a waste of time and money if you were to purchase an audio book to burn onto a CD but then found out that you were not allowed to do this.
Also, when you are transferring audio books onto a compact disk you may need to use multiple CDs. As an example, if you have an audio book than spans ten hours this make take up to 7 CDs.
Saying that, These following instructions show you how to burn an audio book onto a compact disk
NOTE that the below instructions are based on Windows Media Player Version 10. If you have a previous version installed you can install the most up to date version from Microsoft's website. This is the URL - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download
First, the computer you want to use to burn the audio book into CD must be equipped with a recordable CD drive and CD-burning software.
In other words, it is this CD-burning software that can burn the audio book into the CD. And it is your CD drive that can be used for this purpose.
Second, play the audio book on Windows Media Player. You will need to make sure that you select 'Full Mode' when you are doing this, do not choose "Skin Mode".
Third, you will notice the "now playing" information displayed on the right-had side of your Windows Media Player. If this does not show up you can press "Restore the Video and Visualization Pane" button to display it.
4th. Now slect the 'Library' tab. You will notice the “Start Burn” button displayed.
Fifth, at this point, insert the blank CD into the recordable CD drive.
6th. Now you need to Select 'Start Burn'. Now the CD you had just inserted will begin the 'Burning' procedure.
Lastly, if the audio book is larger than the CD (most always are), Windows Media Player will prompt you that it requires a new CD. You can remove the one inside and insert another blank CD.
When the entire burning process is finished, it will display the status as "Complete".
An excellent source that I have found for audio book downloads is Spoken Network.
You can find them at:
www.spokennetwork.com?cam=ama0018
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