How to burn audiobooks to CD

Downloading audiobooks to your computer is much faster and easier than purchasing them from a store or waiting for the physical CD to be shipped to you. Still, sometimes you might like to have the audiobook on CD to listen to it in your car or in your home stereo. Fortunately, it’s easy to burn audiobooks to CD once you download them. Read on for some simple steps to audiobook burning success!

Audible.com recommends that users download format 4 to get the best quality CD recording, and that you use brand name CD-R discs such as Sony, Verbatim, or Maxwell. Burning to CD-RW discs is not recommended, and burning to DVD-R discs is not supported for Audible files. It is best to use the iTunes software to burn Audible content to CD.

Before starting, ensure that you have a computer with CD burning software (such as iTunes) and a recordable CD drive. If you don’t have these, it will be a little tough to succeed with the burning process! Once you confirm that your computer is able to burn CD, ensure that your CD burning software is set to burn audio CDs. Move your audiobook into an individual playlist. Insert a CD into your computer and choose to burn the selected audiobook files to disc by clicking the “Burn Disc” button.

It’s likely that your audiobook file will be too large to fit on one CD, so your burning software may alert you that the file is too long when you first choose to burn it with an error message like “The songs in this playlist will not fit on one audio CD.” The software will also prompt you to insert new CDs during the burning process, so you’ll need to check in on it from time to time. Make sure to number the audio book CDs that you burn so you’ll know the order you need to listen to them in! Most CDs can hold approximately 80 minutes of audio content, so use that as a guideline if you need to separate the audiobook file into smaller chunks for burning.

Specific CD burning instructions will very depending what burning software you are using and where you downloaded your audio book content. Here are links to more specific instructions for different audiobook CD burning scenarios.

How to burn Simply Audiobooks content to CD using Windows Media Player

Burning Audible Content to CD in iTunes

Start burning your audiobooks to CD today and enjoy them in your car, on your home CD player, or on the go!