Description of the CD Audio Feature in Windows Media Player (268504)

SUMMARY

You can use the CD Audio feature of Windows Media Player to play and copy music from CDs. When you insert a music CD, Windows Media Player automatically starts to play the content unless Windows Media Player is already in use or you have installed another program to play audio CDs.

You can also copy tracks from your music CDs to your hard disk. You can copy these tracks in a compressed format so that less hard disk space is used. After you copy CD tracks to your hard disk, you can play the content in your preferred order, without manually changing the CD to access the various tracks or CDs. You can also create a customized list of songs called a playlist that you can arrange to your liking.

MORE INFORMATION

The information that is displayed when you use the CD Audio feature includes:

Name: The name of the track
Length: The length of the track
Copy Status: Not copied = empty; Copying = progress of the copy; Copied = copied to library
Artist: Name of the artist (you can sort by this field)
Genre: Type of music (you can sort by this field)
Style: Subcategory of genre; information is taken from the Internet database provider
Data Provider: The company that provided the Internet database information
Modified by: The name of person who edits information for the data provider

Information for the CD content is gathered from information databases on the Internet.

For additional information about the CD Audio feature, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260132 How to Copy CD-ROM Music in Windows Media Player 7

268502 How to Edit CD Information in Windows Media Player

259911 How to Create a Custom Music CD Track List in Media Player 7

268503 How to Adjust the Compression When Copying CD Music Tracks to a Hard Disk