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How to burn a CD on Windows 11 for music files?
New to Windows 11 and need some help here! Is Windows Media Player completely useless for burning music onto a CD. Clicked through all the options, tried a couple of times, nothing works. Not sure i...
cdrecord is part of the cdrtools family. It can burn audio CDs from WAV files using the -audio option. It is more technical than CDBurnerXP, but it is a real command-line burner.
This is one of the best tools for burning a music CD on Windows 11 as far as I know.
Example:
cdrecord -scanbus
Then burn WAV tracks to a blank CD:
cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -audio "C:\Music\track01.wav" "C:\Music\track02.wav" "C:\Music\track03.wav"
Note: for best CD burning compatibility, convert MP3/FLAC files to 16-bit, 44.1 kHz stereo WAV first.