10.7.1 Creating Soundtrack CDs

By TronFAQ (aka redrain85)

  This is a tutorial on how to create your own soundtrack from the PC version of the game. A lot of people have been asking since the game's release, for an easy way to extract the music and create CDs, since no official soundtrack is available for sale. This tutorial will provide a set of steps that are much easier to do, than any other method proposed so far.

DISCLAIMER: You agree that by following these instructions to create a
soundtrack, you will only use the resulting files for your own private enjoyment.

Do not upload these files through the Internet, under any circumstances.

The author of this tutorial and the owner(s) of the site hosting it, do not take any responsibility
for what you do with the resulting files.




Hardware Required







Software Required



WinRez LT Studio WinRez is a program with a friendly GUI that can be used to extract the contents of the game's .rez files. Click the link to download the program, if you don't already have it.

Audacity A freeware sound recorder and editor. You may substitute your own preferred sound editing program if you wish, but the tutorial will be using this software. Click the link to download the program.

LAME LAME is a freeware MP3 encoder, which we will use with Audacity in this tutorial. You may substitute your own preferred MP3 encoder, but the tutorial will be using this software. Click the link to download the program.

LTDMTest This program is the key to making usable music tracks. Click the link to download soundtrack_files.zip which contains the program, and other important files you'll need.

Nero Burning ROM  Nero is the most popular program for burning all kinds of recordable media. You may substitute your own preferred CD/DVD recording program if you wish, but the tutorial will be using this software. If you own an older version of Nero that you think isn't up to date, click the link to download an update.





Step 1 - Installing the necessary programs, and extracting the Music files











  All the music from the game has now been extracted, and we can move on to the next major step.


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Step 2 - Understanding the game's Music files, and creating usable tracks



  For , Monolith used the DirectMusic feature of Microsoft's DirectX. The idea behind it, is to make the music in the game dynamic. That is to say, it changes depending on the situation you are in, while playing. The music is calm and peaceful while you explore, then picks up the tempo when you are in combat.

  In order to do this . . . instead of having a continuous track of music playing in a level, each track is split up into pieces. So that when the situation changes, the game will swap in a different piece as a transition, before it starts playing completely different pieces. Breaking the tracks up into pieces, allows the game to smoothly transition from one type of music to another.

  Unfortunately, the way they have been prepared in pieces, makes it difficult to put them back together so they sound correct. It's not as simple as just loading each piece one after another, and paste them all together. If you try that, the results will not be acceptable. A lot of editing will be required, to chop off the silence and extra notes on the ends of each piece. It's a lot of work.

  Another method proposed in the past, is to load the pieces into DirectMusic Producer: which is the tool Monolith used to break up the tracks in the first place. But again, this method is complicated and requires a lot of work.

  The method presented in this tutorial is much simpler to do, than either of the ones previously mentioned. However, there will be a slight decrease in sound quality of the tracks, that will vary depending on each person's hardware setup. This is the price to be paid, for a simpler method. But in the author's testing: the difference in quality between what you hear in the game, and the resulting complete tracks, was negligible in his case.


  Now, let's start making some usable tracks!





















Once you're completely done with your first recorded file, you will now need to repeat all these steps for each intensity in every music control file.

So, for example, you've just saved a file called ancient2.mp3 that was recorded from the music played, when you chose intensity level 2 in the ancient.txt control file. The next step would be to record the music being played at intensity 31 in ancient.txt, and save it as ancient31.mp3. Then you would move on to scherzo.txt and record the music at intensity 31, saving it as scherzo31.mp3. And so on . . . for every intensity in every music control file, until you've recorded them all.

Refer again to the list of intensities above, as you continue recording.

For the ID3 tags of each .mp3 file that you save, refer to the track list name guide table below. The guide also shows how long each recorded track should be, so you have an idea if the tracks are the proper length.







  The final step, is to prepare the music tracks from the game that aren't split up into pieces.

  Even though all of these files will have .wav extensions: the majority of them are, in fact, .mp3 files. So all we need to do for those ones, is to use a batch file (provided with this tutorial) to rename them, and change their extensions in the process. For the few that are actually real .wav files, we will load them into Audacity and then convert them by saving to the .mp3 format. For some reason, Monolith gave all the files .wav extensions, even though the majority of them are really .mp3 files.





  Once all of this is completed, you're done creating music tracks! Now the next step is to burn them, if you want to create an Audio CD.


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Track List Name Guide



Take me to the intensity list


Original file name New file name after using rename_tracks.bat ID3 tags Approx. length
ancient2.mp3 33. Main Processing Core - Part 1.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Main Processing Core - Part 1
1:38
ancient31.mp3 34. Main Processing Core - Part 2.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Main Processing Core - Part 2
1:43
bin2.mp3 15. Prisoner Bin - Part 1.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Prisoner Bin - Part 1
1:39
bin31.mp3 16. Prisoner Bin - Part 2.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Prisoner Bin - Part 2
1:28
BOSSMUSIC.mp3 45. Progress Bar - Thorne Boss Fight.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Progress Bar - Thorne Boss Fight
0:30
bradley2.mp3 22. Alan's Desktop PC.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Alan's Desktop PC
1:37
bradley9.mp3 25. Power Regulator - Part 1.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Power Regulator - Part 1
1:27
bradley14.mp3 26. Power Regulator - Part 2.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Power Regulator - Part 2
1:26
city2.mp3 37. City Hub - Part 1.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    City Hub - Part 1
1:22
city14.mp3 38. City Hub - Part 2.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    City Hub - Part 2
1:48
city31.mp3 47. Outer Grid Escape.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Outer Grid Escape
1:11
corrupt2.mp3 51. Thorne's Perimeter Partition - Part 1.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Thorne's Perimeter Partition - Part 1
2:00
corrupt12.mp3 52. Thorne's Perimeter Partition - Part 2.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Thorne's Perimeter Partition - Part 2
1:20
corrupt21.mp3 55. Thorne's Internal Partition.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Thorne's Internal Partition
1:41
CREDITS1.WAV 05. Jet Enters the Electronic World - Main Titles.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Jet Enters the Electronic World - Main Titles
1:44
CREDITS2.WAV 78. TRON 2.0 End Credits.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    TRON 2.0 End Credits
5:18
cruiser2.mp3 66. Assembly Level - Part 1.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Assembly Level - Part 1
1:44
cruiser17.mp3 71. Command Module.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Command Module
1:36
cruiser31.mp3 67. Assembly Level - Part 2.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Assembly Level - Part 2
1:36
fcom2.mp3 61. Security Socket - Part 1.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Security Socket - Part 1
1:27
fcom4.mp3 62. Security Socket - Part 2.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Security Socket - Part 2
1:53
fcom6.mp3 30. Abandoned Test Grid - Seeker Boss Fight.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Abandoned Test Grid - Seeker Boss Fight
1:19
FLIGHT20.WAV 74. Jet Enters the Digitizing Stream.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Jet Enters the Digitizing Stream
0:22
INTROCS1.WAV 03. What Is Your Function.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    What Is Your Function?
0:43
INTROCS2.WAV 04. Alan Kidnapped - Stop What You're Doing!.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Alan Kidnapped / Stop What You're Doing!
0:58
labicp2.mp3 08. Program Integration.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Program Integration
1:28
labicp13.mp3 19. Transport Station.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Transport Station
1:14
labicp31.mp3 06. Combat Training Arena.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Combat Training Arena
1:38
LOOP1.mp3 41. Progress Bar - Track 1.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Progress Bar - Track 1
0:15
LOOP2.mp3 43. Progress Bar - Track 6.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Progress Bar - Track 6
0:52
LOOP3.mp3 42. Progress Bar - Track 3.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Progress Bar - Track 3
0:40
menu2.mp3 02. TRON 2.0 Menu.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    TRON 2.0 Menu
1:36
MUSICFINCS1.WAV 77. We Did It! - I Need a Good Screen Saver.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    We Did It! / I Need a Good Screen Saver
1:21
MUSICM0101CS1.WAV 07. Unauthorized Program In Sector.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Unauthorized Program In Sector
0:39
MUSICM0102CS1.WAV 09. Incompetent Scripts!.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Incompetent Scripts!
0:06
MUSICM0102CS2.WAV 10. Freeze Program!.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Freeze Program!
0:11
MUSICM0201CS1.WAV 11. You're Making a Big Mistake.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    You're Making a Big Mistake
0:21
MUSICM0201CS2.WAV 12. Kernel Interrogates Jet - Put Him On the Grid.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Kernel Interrogates Jet / Put Him On the Grid
0:54
MUSICM0201CS3A.WAV 13. Jet Escapes the Game Grid.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Jet Escapes the Game Grid
0:06
MUSICM0201CS3B.WAV 14. Jet Meets Mercury.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Jet Meets Mercury
0:37
MUSICM0203CS1.WAV 17. This System Is Not Going Down On My Watch!.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    This System Is Not Going Down On My Watch!
0:28
MUSICM0203CS2.WAV 18. I Want That Program Found.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    I Want That Program Found
0:19
MUSICM0204CS1.WAV 20. Primary Digitizing - Free Ma3a.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Primary Digitizing / Free Ma3a
0:28
MUSICM0204CS2.WAV 21. Protect Ma3a - Jet Escapes the Format.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Protect Ma3a / Jet Escapes the Format
0:36
MUSICM0402CS1.WAV 23. Packet Transport Arrives With Stowaway.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Packet Transport Arrives With Stowaway
0:43
MUSICM0402RW.WAV 24. DataWraith Training - Phase One Completed.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    DataWraith Training / Phase One Completed
0:37
MUSICM0403CS2.WAV 28. A Seeker! - This Should Get Its Attention.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    A Seeker! / This Should Get Its Attention
0:32
MUSICM0403RW.WAV 27. Prepare Your Seeker Program.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Prepare Your Seeker Program
0:25
MUSICM0501CS0.WAV 29. Test Grid Online.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Test Grid Online
0:11
MUSICM0501CS1.WAV 31. Seeker Derezzed - Jet Falls Into An Abyss.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Seeker Derezzed / Jet Falls Into An Abyss
0:21
MUSICM0502CS1.WAV 32. Jet Dreams - I'm Not You.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Jet Dreams / I'm Not You
0:54
MUSICM0503CS1.WAV 35. What A Configuration - Foreign Code Detected.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    What A Configuration / Foreign Code Detected
0:32
MUSICM0601CS2.WAV 39. Installing ICP Defenses - Mercury! It's me, Jet!.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Installing ICP Defenses / Mercury! It's me, Jet!
1:00
MUSICM0601CS3.WAV 40. Correction Algorithms.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Correction Algorithms
0:28
MUSICM0602CS1.WAV 44. I'm Thorne, Your Master User.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    I'm Thorne, Your Master User
0:35
MUSICM0602CS2.WAV 46. Legacy Code Compiled - I've Been Freed!.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Legacy Code Compiled / I've Been Freed!
1:00
MUSICM0603CS1.WAV 48. Seeker Locates Ma3a - I'm Not Finished!.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Seeker Locates Ma3a / I'm Not Finished!
0:24
MUSICM0603RW.WAV 49. Retrieving Ma3a - Go To Phase Two.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Retrieving Ma3a / Go To Phase Two
0:29
MUSICM0701A.WAV 50. What Are You Doing! - Alan Enters the Electronic World.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    What Are You Doing! / Alan Enters the Electronic World
2:53
MUSICM0702CS1.WAV 53. Controller Routines Destroyed - We're Going In!.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Controller Routines Destroyed / We're Going In!
0:41
MUSICM0702RW.WAV 54. Prepare the DataWraiths.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Prepare the DataWraiths
0:39
MUSICM0704CS1.WAV 56. Thorne's Chamber Core.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Thorne's Chamber Core
0:45
MUSICM0704CS2.WAV 57. I'm So Tired and Ashamed - Thorne Crumbles.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    I'm So Tired and Ashamed / Thorne Crumbles
1:34
MUSICM0902RW.WAV 63. Lost Alan.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Lost Alan
0:32
MUSICM0903RW.WAV 64. Failsafe Kicking In - I Think We Have a Problem.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Failsafe Kicking In / I Think We Have a Problem
1:11
MUSICM1003CS1.WAV 65. Launch Status Is Gold - fCon's Mobile Server.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Launch Status Is Gold / fCon's Mobile Server
0:15
MUSICM1003CS2.WAV 68. DataWraith Training Grids.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    DataWraith Training Grids
0:25
MUSICM1003RW1.WAV 69. fCon Team Enters Computer.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    fCon Team Enters Computer
1:04
MUSICM1003RW2.WAV 70. The Correction Algorithms! They're Gone!.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    The Correction Algorithms! They're Gone!
0:38
MUSICM1004CS2A.WAV 72. Alan Enters the Digitizing Stream.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Alan Enters the Digitizing Stream
0:31
MUSICM1004CS2C.WAV 73. fCon Monster Finds Jet.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    fCon Monster Finds Jet
0:13
pda2.mp3 58. Function Control Deck - Part 1.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Function Control Deck - Part 1
1:00
pda4.mp3 59. Function Control Deck - Part 2.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Function Control Deck - Part 2
1:06
pda6.mp3 60. Function Control Deck - Part 3.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Function Control Deck - Part 3
1:12
realm2.mp3 75. Digitizing Stream - fCon Monster Boss Fight.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Digitizing Stream - fCon Monster Boss Fight
0:36
scherzo31.mp3 36. Main Power Pipeline.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Main Power Pipeline
1:30
THEME_MP3.mp3 01. TRON 2.0 Title.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    TRON 2.0 Title
0:07
VICTORYMUSIC.WAV 76. Ma3a, Bring My Son Home.mp3 Artist:   Nathan Grigg, Guy Whitmore, Brian Pamintuan
Album: TRON 2.0 Soundtrack
Title:    Ma3a, Bring My Son Home
0:31

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Step 3 - Creating and burning Soundtrack CDs



  After creating all the tracks, you might want to burn them to a CD. If so, here's how to do it using Nero Express.









The final step, is to print CD case inserts and a CD label.





    

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