# MP3 Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 25, 2000, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-question/30747 "2000-08-25T17:41:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DarbyV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@DarbyV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarbyV)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-question/30747/1 "2000-08-25T17:41:54Z")
Can you burn MP3’s that you have downloaded from napster onto a CD, and if so how? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-question/30747/2 "2000-08-25T18:34:36Z")
Yes. It’s simple. Musicmatch Plus version (top rated software BTW) at [http://www.musicmatch.com](http://www.musicmatch.com) will do it for you in one operation. ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-question/30747/3 "2000-08-25T19:17:50Z")
Yes, you can. I assume that you want to be able to play that CD in a normal CD player. As has been stated, musicmatch does a great job of doing what you’d like to do. Of course, if you mean you’d just like to burn MP3s in their orginal state to a CD, that can also be done. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-question/30747/4 "2000-08-25T21:54:41Z")
It’s my understanding that the very latest Microsoft Media Player will burn MP3s to audio-format CDs. The only PC I have access to with a burner has NT, which wasn’t supported yet the last time I checked, so I haven’t tried it yet. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-question/30747/5 "2000-08-26T03:04:08Z")
This is a good source for rippers, encoders, decoders, players, etc: [http://showcase.netins.net/web/phdss/mp3/](http://showcase.netins.net/web/phdss/mp3/) Don’t forget to use CD-R and not CD-R/W if you want to play them on regular CD players. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-question/30747/6 "2000-08-26T03:32:09Z")
\>\> It’s my understanding that the very latest Microsoft Media Player will burn MP3s to audio-format CDs I have version 6.4 and it does no conversions at all. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-question/30747/7 "2000-08-26T03:53:01Z")
Sailor, version 7.0 of the MS media player is available for free DL and you should give it a try. It is _much_ more advanced than any past MS media players. Having said that I don’t think it will burn CDs from MP3 files although I believe it will burn MP3s from CDs.