Gateway MX6960 Starter Manual page 11

rip, burn, play
Create a custom music CD with MP3s you rip yourself, or create a video DVD of home movies
or special videos. If your computer came with a DVD burner, you can do it all with easy-to-use
software already installed on your Gateway computer.
Create an MP3 music fi le
To create an MP3, click the Windows Media Player
icon on your Windows desktop. Put a music CD in
the CD drive on your computer. Make sure the song
or songs you want to create MP3s of are checked,
then click Rip. Windows Media Player will create
MP3s and save them to the My Music folder in My
Documents.
Create a DVD
To save content such as data or movies to DVD, open
Power2Go from the Start menu. Put a blank, writable
DVD into the DVD burner on your computer. Click
Video/Photo Disc , then select your DVD burner
and the type of disc you are creating. Click OK, then
click Add Files. Select the fi les or folders you want
to burn to the DVD, then click Import. When you
have added all of your fi les, make any selections to
customize your video DVD, click Burn, then click OK.
For more information about using media, see your online user guide.
Note: you
must have a
DVD burner to
create a DVD
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