CubaTBird said:
yea man its sooooooo hard to burn a disc in windows...... look people, like 5 of those steps can be removed........ ok here it is in itunes
step 1: click music store
step 2: if u want to create a playlist create one
step 3: download the selected content using the search feature, u can search by artist or genre
step 4: drag the songs to the playlist u want to burn
step 5: arrange the songs the way u want em
step 6: if u want u can customize what appears in the play list by selecting view options
step 7: u can rate songs also, and change song names
step 8: right click a song and change the info
step 9; hit burn
step 10: watch it burn
wow same diff people..............
Steps 2, and 4 + 5, reduce to "Create a playlist." Step 6, 7, and 8 are features, not necessary steps before burning. All your list shows is that it takes a lot of work to make burning from iTunes sound as complicated as those Windows instructions.
The iTunes instructions are essentially:
Step 1: Set your burning options in Preferences.
Step 2: Create a playlist (this includes adding and arranging, checking or un-checking, etc)
Step 3: Click the Burn icon.
Step 4: Insert blank disc when prompted.
If there's any difference between the Mac and Windows versions, it's that Apple assumes you've already done the work of setting up the playlist to burn. Therefore there's no need for a second "Items to Burn" window, nor any need to re-work the playlist in that window. It would be convenient to be able to change speed & type before burning, but otherwise, Apple doesn't make it necessary to re-iterate all your choices before you can get a disc burned.
In contrast, the Windows way asks you to add your playlist that's already there, offers you the superfluous option to re-do the playlist in the "Items to Burn" pane, and makes very sure you really want the burn options probably already specified elsewhere. Because, of course, you either have the attention span of a gnat and will change your mind about what you'd like to burn in between creating a playlist and clicking Burn, or you're so stupid that it would be wise to go through everything a second time, just to make sure.
And why do you have to go into a menu, much less a sub-menu with the unintuitive and technical-sounding name "CDs and Devices", to get to the Burn option? Why isn't that right up front?
So basically, the Windows instructions are:
Step 1: Set your burning options in whatever menu they're in...or just accept the defaults.
Step 2: Create a playlist (this includes adding and arranging, checking or un-checking, etc)
Step 3: Click on File > CDs and Devices > Burn (three clicks to iTunes' one)
Step 4: Choose what playlist to burn and edit that playlist if necessary (what, again?)
Step 5: Insert a blank disc, or erase a disk if necessary.
Step 6: Change settings if necessary (in other words, re-do step 1)
Step 7: Choose what type of disc you're burning (step 1, part II)
Step 8: Click Start Burn.
