Chapter 30. Burning Your Music to a CD or USB Drive

In this section of the book, we look into how you can share your favorite music with your friends. We’re going to skip over the whole area of file-sharing websites, because (a) we already talked about them, back in Chapter 12, “Downloading Music from P2P File-Sharing Sites,” and (b) they’re illegal. Instead, we’ll focus on ways to physically, digitally, and socially share your music.

We start, in this chapter, by investigating physical music sharing. Bypassing the obvious (passing a purchased CD to a pal), we’ll focus on burning music to compact disc and copying audio files to a USB drive. It may be old school, but ...

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