Of course I'm sure that you're intending copying recordings of your family sing-songs around the Christmas tree at yuletide and not partaking in the scandalous business of ripping-off 'Copyrighted' songs via Napster.... ?!
In any event, personally I purchased (from PC-World) a TraxData CDRW8432 Plus (8x 4x 32x) drive which came with 'Nero Burning ROM' software, and which imho it's just too easy to install and use !
E.g. wanna write an Audio CD then start Nero, select 'Audio CD', then drag/drop the MP3 files to the drive, click 'burn', stick a blank disc in the drive, and Nero takes care of the rest !
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CrashDive
Administrator to The Professional Pilots RUmour NEtwork
May you live in interesting times !