You click Make Audio CD . A wizard asks: add files? You browse your music folder—a chaotic graveyard of LimeWire MP3s. Sarah likes Dashboard Confessional and The Postal Service. You drag in "Hands Down," "Such Great Heights," and for a wild card: "Dragostea Din Tei" (the O-Zone meme song she laughed at last week).
Time to burn. You insert a shiny silver Memorex CD-R (52x rated, but you’ll burn at 48x because you’re not a coward). Nero’s progress bar appears: Buffer underrun protection enabled. You hold your breath. The laser whirs. The bar inches forward—10%, 27%, 44%—then freezes. The cursor becomes an hourglass. Your heart stops. Nero 7 - Nero 7
The StartSmart menu blooms: a glossy, Vista-era interface with icons for every conceivable disc task. Burn Audio CD. Burn Data DVD. Copy Disc. Make Slideshow. Back Up System. Rip Music. Print Cover. You click Make Audio CD
