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Originally Posted by MHC
You'll probably get varying opinions as to the best program to use, but I wholeheartedly believe that Apple's iTunes is the easiest one to use. You can download it at www.apple.com/itunes
After you install it, be sure to go to Edit -> Preferences, and under the Import tab, choose MP3 format, and a quality setting (why not splurge and set it to "high"?) 
Now, put a CD in your computer and click the Import button in the top-right corner. The music will be copied to your computer. To burn songs to a CD, a playlist has to be created (use the + icon at the bottom left to add a new playlist). Drag any songs from the main window to the new playlist. When you're ready, click the playlist, and the Import icon (top-right) will have turned into a burn icon. Insert a blank CD and click the burn icon.
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This creates another audio CD, which will only hold an album's worth of songs.
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I too advise you use iTunes. In order to burn an MP3 CD download and install iTunes. Follow MHC's advice about selecting MP3 under the Import options, that way anything you rip through iTunes will be in MP3 format, which is the easiest to use (for burning, transfering, etc). If you have previous files other than MP3 (say .WMA if you used Windows Media Player to rip them) then you'll need to find a tool to convert them from that file type to MP3 (most likely, iTunes has a function for this, though if the media is protected it won't work. So I advise just re-ripping your favorite CD's via iTunes. If they're songs you've downloaded from Kazaa or something then you should be fine.
----> The important part: in the options dialog find the "Burning" options and select MP3 CD rather than Audio CD. This will allow you to burn the 1000 songs you want. The actual capacity depends on the size of the CD you're burning onto, and the length of the songs. Average file size for a song is say 2MB so if you have a 800MB disk you can put around 400 songs on. <-----
Now, that said, you may find that scrolling through 400 songs one by one (which is the way it works with our stereos) starts to piss you off. So, I advise making a play list of your favorite songs so you can just put the stereo on shuffle and let 'em rip. Hope that helps.
Correction: average size for a song is about 4MB, so an 800MB MP3 CD will hold about 200 songs
