# Quickguide: Burning an Audio-CD in 4 Steps

This Quickguide shows you how to create a AudioCD with &k3b;. To reproduce these steps you need a working &k3b; and a directory in which you have audiofiles.

## Step 1

When you start &k3b; you should see something like this. Here you can select one of four projects &k3b; offers Screenshot

## Step 2

Now you click on "New Audio CD Project" This is a dialog where you can select which files you want to burn on a CD Screenshot

The files you see on the top-part of &k3b; can be dropped with the mouse to the bottom-widget. Another way is to right-click on a file an select Add to Project. In order to rearrange the order of the audio-tracks you can simply move the tracks with the left mouse-button. The properties of the tracks can be changed by clicking with the &RMB; and choosing Properties. As soon as you like the arrangement of the tracks click on Burn... in the right-bottom corner.

## Step 3

This is a dialog where you can decide the settings for the CD.
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In this dialog you can control the settings of the burning itself. The default-settings of &k3b; are probably correct for you. In the top-right corner you can control the speed. One last step before the actual burning you can give the CD a title by choosing CD-Text and selecting Write CD-Text. The two which are probably most important for you are Title and Performer. As soon as you are content with the settings click on Burn.

## Step 4

In this dialog you can see the progress of you burning Screenshot In this dialog is nothing you can do. Just wait for you computer to finish the session.