# Does anyone manufacture a boombox that also writes to CDs?

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**Created:** [September 8, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-manufacture-a-boombox-that-also-writes-to-cds/263662 "2004-09-08T19:15:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-manufacture-a-boombox-that-also-writes-to-cds/263662/1 "2004-09-08T19:15:56Z")

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Googling appears fraught with false positives (“_Write_ a review”, etc.), so I thought I’d do the lazy thing and poll the teeming millions.

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**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-manufacture-a-boombox-that-also-writes-to-cds/263662/2 "2004-09-08T20:40:01Z")

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What is a boombox?

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**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-manufacture-a-boombox-that-also-writes-to-cds/263662/3 "2004-09-08T21:27:40Z")

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A self-contained, portable music device with speakers (as opposed to a earphone jack), which may include AM and/or FM tuners and a CD player. (Some of them were/are very loud, hence the nickname).

They used to commonly include cassete tape player/recorders, which could record directly from the radio.

A friend recently asked me whether there were any such devices that let you record from the radio to a CD. I confessed that I didn’t know, but suspected not, due to the controversy over digital piracy.

But I wasn’t sure, since I understand there are mp3 players that will record radio directly from self-contained tuners.

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**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-manufacture-a-boombox-that-also-writes-to-cds/263662/4 "2004-09-09T02:26:51Z")

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> [@F. U. Shakespeare](#):
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> A self-contained, portable music device with speakers (as opposed to a earphone jack), which may include AM and/or FM tuners and a CD player. (Some of them were/are very loud, hence the nickname).They used to commonly include cassete tape player/recorders, which could record directly from the radio. But I wasn’t sure, since I understand there are mp3 players that will record radio directly from self-contained tuners.

A CD burner would essentially require that the boombox incorporate a computer. You might just a well start with the computer and feed the boombox into the computer to record to HD and transfer to CD. If you insist on a combo it will have to be a custom and expensive one of a kind unit for the present.  
OTOH you could use the mp3 tuner to play and record and then transfet to computer.