Napster & burning CD's

[jipsy]

OK I am new to all this downloading music and then burning it. I subscribed to Napster and after the free trial it is $9.95/month. Fine cheap if you ask me.

So I download tons of stuff and go to burn it. Napster won't recognize my burner. So I try Nero, which is usually how I burn cd's/dvd's and it tells me I don't have enough licenses. I email both Nero and Napster. Napster tells me I need to uninstall their burner and then use Windows Media Player to burn CD's. Nero tells me I am SOL and that Napster is trying to get me to pay extra to burn CD's.

Can any of you geeks here tell me what I'm really supposed to be doing so that I can burn CD's? Should I dump Napster and go somewhere else or what? I don't have an IPOD I just want to burn CD's. I don't mind paying a little for each song; but I thought $9.95/month included the burning capability. I have no problem burning a cd from a cd.

I did find some kind of software that said if I bought it, and played the song once through it, it would remove any blocking? I'm not really into that; I just am looking for a place to let me download a song onto my computer and then burn it later. Again, I don't mind paying for that.

Someone told me to use I-Tunes but I thought that only let you download onto IPODS?

Help; I'm confused. Again, I'm not looking for freebies; I'm just looking for what works and is a reasonable price.

 

[Cool-Beans]

Dump Napster. Someday you'll want an IPOD and Napster songs saved in Windows Media Player can't be put in IPODs. You have to buy a Napster-To-Go thing and then pay like $20 or $30 every month. To put them in the IPOD, you have to go buy the songs all over. Take it from one who said, "I don't want an IPOD, I just want the songs in the computer."

 

[jipsy]

Well that's fine, but it still doesn't answer my question about what will let me burn CD's? Right now I don't have an IPOD.

 

[Cool-Beans]

Sorry.

Windows Media Player works very well with Napster and allows you to burn the CDs.

 

[jipsy]

thank you

 

[Amity 3]

I'll get torched, but I never pay for music.

 

[bicker]

My wife uses iTunes (she has an iPod) while I use Windows Media Player. I find I can burn CDs much easier than she can, so I recommend Media Player over iTunes.

 

[Cool-Beans]

I'll get torched, but I never pay for music.

I am shocked.

If I could figure out how, I'd download the songs for free. I mean, I paid for them on Napster, but they got saved as WMA files in Media Player. So, even though I paid for them I can't put them in the ipod unless I get them again as mp3 files, and I don't want to pay twice.

This issue of whether I should or shouldn't download them again illegally has become the subject of friendly debate through my extended family.

 

[Carl]

Aren't there programs which will convert from one file type to another?