Burned My First Audio CD in iTunes in 15 Years Today

I did something I haven’t done in the past 15 years, if not more — I burned an audio CD in iTunes, to use in the CD player in my car. This wasn’t as easy as I had hoped.

First of all, I had to find my DVD burner, which was buried somewhere in the closet. Then I actually had to go out and buy a pack of CD-Rs, which turned out to be harder than I thought. The last issue was with iTunes itself — I can’t burn the songs I add to my library from Apple Music, since they’re DRMed. Unfortunately, I had to buy them, but that wasn’t possible at first. Since all the music in my library, which I added from Apple Music, is downloaded to my computer (so I don’t have to stream), it wasn’t available for purchase in the iTunes Store. I had to first remove the download (right-click on the song and select Remove Download), then right-click on the song again, select Go To → Song in iTunes Store, and then buy it.

The Playlist

You can try to subscribe to my shared playlist on Apple Music here. If it doesn’t work, I provided a list of all the songs below.

PS. The 80 minute limit on CDs sucks.

Intro — The xx

Jim — Swans

Working for the Man — PJ Harvey

Paint It Black — Ramin Djawadi

The Sound of Silence — Disturbed

My Love — Krupa

Angel — Massive Attack

Paradise Circus — Massive Attack

Clubbed to Death — Rob D

Main Title Theme From Californication — Tyler Bates & Tree Adams

Training Montage — Vince DiCola

War — Vince DiCola

Flower — Moby

Again (long version) — Archive Again (Single)