CD recorder

[macpark]

As a singing teacher, I currently make rehearsal CD's for my students in a labour intensive way, using a mic to record to mini-disc player and then download into audacity on the laptop and then burn to CD.

The minidisc is now worn out and I need an alternative. Is there a stand alone machine where you put a blank CD in and press Recird and it soits out a recorded CD like the old-fashioned tape recorders? Or is there a way of converting my laptop to be a recorder with some software?

Basically it needs to be as labour saving as possible. Ideally using the laptop is best as I want to be able to keep the song tracks recorded for burning on multiple occasions rather than having to record every time.

[fo3nix]

If you have a microphone to plug into the laptop, you should be able to use audacity (i believe anyway) to record straight from the microphone, which you can then save as an mp3 file on your computer for storage.

you can then use any of a number of programs, such as nero and iTunes, that will turn the mp3 into a cd track to burn onto a CD.

[macpark]

Thank you. I do indeed have a mic and so I am about toi try your idea as we speak.

[wideboy]

I thought Audacity had the facility to save to a wav file - it can certainly export to wav. No need then to do any conversion.