{"id":39294,"date":"2026-10-26T03:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=39294"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T05:10:22","slug":"mac-itunes-burn-and-rip-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/mac-itunes-burn-and-rip-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac iTunes Burn and Rip Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/burn_rip.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Mac iTunes Burn and Rip Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/burn_rip.jpg\" title=\"Mac iTunes Burn and Rip Primer Tutorial\"   \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mac iTunes Burn and Rip Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s blog posting is about Mac OS X optical disc <a target=\"_blank\" title='Burn information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Optical_disc_authoring' rel=\"noopener\">Burn<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" title='Burn information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ripping' rel=\"noopener\">Rip<\/a> techniques to copy audio content to a CD-R compact disc via &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n$ <a target=\"_blank\" title='Mac OS X command line drutil' href='https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/135347' rel=\"noopener\">drutil<\/a> info<br \/>\n Vendor   Product           Rev<br \/>\n HL-DT-ST DVDRW  GS41N      UA04<br \/>\n<b><\/b><br \/>\n   Interconnect: ATAPI<br \/>\n   SupportLevel: Unsupported<br \/>\n   Profile Path: None<br \/>\n          Cache: 768k<br \/>\n       CD-Write: -R, -RW, BUFE, CDText, Test, IndexPts, ISRC<br \/>\n      DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW, BUFE, Test<br \/>\n     Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO<br \/>\n<b><\/b><br \/>\n$<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; the MacBook Pro optical disc device as above, and Mac OS X&#8217;s desktop application <a target=\"_blank\" href='https:\/\/www.apple.com\/au\/itunes\/' title='iTunes information from Apple' rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a> (though we could have done it, more painfully, with command line &#8220;drutil&#8221; mentioned above).<\/p>\n<p>The resultant CD created this way was readable in our Volkswagen Golf&#8217;s media player, as you can see in the last slides of today&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/burn_rip.pdf\" title=\"Click picture\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF slideshow<\/a> presentation, showing the visuals for some steps below &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>find your blank CD-R (or other) digital vinyl removable disc (ours had 700mB capacity)<\/li>\n<li>find your MacBook Pro with a suitable optical disk reader (and writer &#8230; &#8220;burn&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>check this at Mac OS X Terminal command line, via &#8230;<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\ndrutil info<br \/>\n<\/code>\n<\/li>\n<li>eject any existant disk in the drive, via Mac OS X Finder, as required<\/li>\n<li>insert your blank CD into drive &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Finder comes up to inform of insertion of a blank CD and we select, out of the options shown &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Open iTunes &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>iTunes desktop application starts up to inform of insertion of a blank CD and offers &#8230;\n<ol>\n<li>File -&gt; Burn Playlist to Disc<\/li>\n<li>File -&gt; New -&gt; Playlist<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p> &#8230; of which we wanted the latter &#8230;\n<\/li>\n<li>we had a chance but didn&#8217;t rename the resultant newly created playlist &#8220;Playlist&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>we did a series of drag and drops of audio files from a Finder window into iTunes &#8220;Playlist&#8221; playlist folder &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>two finger gesture off &#8220;Playlist&#8221; playlist folder brought up option &#8220;Burn Playlist to Disc&#8221; which we selected once all files we wanted were contained within the &#8220;Playlist&#8221; iTunes playlist &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>selecting Disc Format &#8220;Audio CD&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>it&#8217;s optional to click &#8220;CD Info&#8221; button and fill in more information about the CD just &#8220;Burnt&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>we could have ejected the CD via iTunes, but we did the same thing in Finder<\/li>\n<li>we reinserted the CD<\/li>\n<li>iTunes desktop application starts up to offer the &#8220;Rip&#8221; operation of &#8220;Importing the CD&#8221; into the iTunes library, and though this is overkill, we did this to see that this &#8220;Rip&#8221; could work with an independently introduced CD from some other source &#8230; imports typically occur 5 or 6 times faster than playing the CD at normal speed<\/li>\n<li>we then clicked the Play left arrow to play the CD normally from within iTunes<\/li>\n<li>we then ejected the CD using the iTunes eject icon<\/li>\n<li>we then took that CD to the Volkswagen Golf, setting its media player to Media, inserting the CD (disc) we&#8217;d created above, to verify that it played okay that way<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Perhaps some other &#8220;removable media&#8221; thoughts with Mac and Linux type commands (Mac OS X is actually a BSD based operating system command line) can be seen at <a title='Mac Linux Removable Media Primer Tutorial' href='#mlrmpt'>Mac Linux Removable Media Primer Tutorial<\/a> if you are interested here.<\/p>\n<p>Happy listening!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p id='mlrmpt'>Previous relevant <a target=\"_blank\" title='Mac Linux Removable Media Primer Tutorial' href='\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/mac-linux-removable-media-primer-tutorial\/' rel=\"noopener\">Mac Linux Removable Media Primer Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/Removables\/Mac_Linux_Removable_Media\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Mac Linux Removable Media Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/Removables\/Mac_Linux_Removables.jpg\" id='mlr' onmouseover=' this.src=this.src.replace(\".jpg\", \".PNG\").replace(\".png\", \".jpg\").replace(\".PNG\", \".png\");   ' title=\"Mac Linux Removable Media Primer Tutorial\"   \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mac Linux Removable Media Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s tutorial is as much about the nominal title &#8220;Mac Linux Removable Media Primer Tutorial&#8221; as it is about &#8216;The Making of &#8220;Mac Linux Removable Media Primer Tutorial&#8221;&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding &#8220;Mac Linux Removable Media Primer Tutorial&#8221; we visit (and see a Mac Finder view of):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plug and Play on a Mac laptop (if something is incompatible the system does not respond to the removable media as with our LiteOn DVD player (whose software (drivers) work with Windows))<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" title='Useful Linux df command tutorial ... thanks' href='http:\/\/www.tecmint.com\/how-to-check-disk-space-in-linux\/' rel=\"noopener\">df<\/a> -k<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" title='diskutil on Mac OS X information from Apple' href='http:\/\/commandlinemac.blogspot.com.au\/2008\/12\/using-diskutil.html' rel=\"noopener\">diskutil<\/a> unmount &#8220;[Volume-Name]&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>ls -clt &#8220;[Volume-Name]&#8221; | more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regarding &#8216;The Making of &#8220;Mac Linux Removable Media Primer Tutorial&#8221;&#8216; we see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iPad Camera creation of photographs of Mac laptop screenshots of Mac OS X application Terminal Linux removable media view &#8230; as alternative to Grab (as talked about with <a target=\"_blank\" href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=4945' title='After Screen Capture Primer Tutorial' rel=\"noopener\">After Screen Capture Primer Tutorial<\/a> &#8230; point being that with this tutorial it would be good to photograph the Mac laptop and its surrounding peripherals (ie. removable media) &#8230; hence the use of the iPad camera)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/Removables\/BackAtiPad.jpg\" title='View of iPad' rel=\"noopener\">iPad<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/Removables\/iPhoto_Sync.jpg\" title='Sync of iPad' rel=\"noopener\">sync<\/a> to Mac laptop via white lead &#8230; pans out to be much more straightforward than emailing several images from an iPad as a series of attachments in an email &#8230; no young laughter here, please<\/li>\n<li>iTunes method of ejecting connection between iPad and Mac laptop<\/li>\n<li>iPhoto event creation<\/li>\n<li>iPhoto Slideshow display<\/li>\n<li>iMovie Event creation<\/li>\n<li>iMovie Event based movie creation<\/li>\n<li>iMovie movie share to YouTube<\/li>\n<li>iPhoto Webpage export &#8230; alternative slideshow idea<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Skb-WR4R1OQ' title='YouTube video' rel=\"noopener\">Mac Linux Removable Media<\/a> &#8230; YouTube video created<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hope you get some ideas out of today&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/Removables\/Mac_Linux_Removable_Media\/\" title='Click picture' rel=\"noopener\">tutorial<\/a> which resulted in the YouTube video <a target=\"_blank\" href='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Skb-WR4R1OQ' title='YouTube video' rel=\"noopener\">Mac Linux Removable Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Skb-WR4R1OQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d9900' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d9900\"); 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