|  | Creating your own CDs

If your Mac has a supported CD burner you can create your own audio CDs containing songs from your library. iTunes converts the songs to standard audio files before writing them to the CD. The quality of the songs sound as good as they do in iTunes. Songs you download from the Internet may be encoded differently, so their quality may be different.

Choose New Playlist from the File menu. Drag the songs you want from your library to the playlist name in the source list. In the playlist, drag the songs into the order you want to hear them. The approximate total time of the songs in the list is displayed at the bottom of the window. (It does not include the Preference setting for the amount of silence you've selected between songs.) When you're ready to create the disc, click the Burn CD button in the playlist window. Then insert a blank CD-R in your Mac and click Burn CD again.

It takes several minutes to write the CD. You can cancel by clicking the X next to the progress bar.