Creating CDs

Tools Menu

Use the Create CD dialog to save your sound files to audio CDs that you can share with others.

To open the dialog, choose Create CD from the Tools menu and choose Add Track or Close CD from the submenu.

Before burning your project to a CD, verify you are using a 16-bit, 44,100 Hz file. Sample rates other than 44,100 Hz will cause CD track lengths to be miscalculated.

What do you want to do?

Add a track to a CD

  1. If you have not already done so, save your song.

  2. From the Tools menu, choose Create CD and choose Add Track from the submenu. The Create CD dialog displays the length of the current file and the amount of time remaining on the disc in your CD recorder.

If you do not have a disc in your CD recorder drive when you access this window, all options other than the Cancel button are unavailable. If you insert a disc into your CD recorder after you access this window, it will take a moment or two for Sound Forge to recognize the disc and make additional options available.

  1. Click the Add Audio button. The approximate time remaining is displayed at the bottom of the dialog box.

Notes:

Close a CD project

Closing a disc allows your files to be played on an audio CD player.

  1. From the Tools menu, choose Create CD and choose Close Disc from the submenu. The Create CD dialog displays the amount of time remaining on the disc in your CD recorder.

  2. Click the Close Disc button.

You will not be able to add audio tracks to a CD after you close the disc.