Making a Halloween music CD can be fun and rewarding by Daryl Plaza

Making a Halloween music CD can be fun and rewarding

It is easy to create your own Halloween music CD! Halloween is a fun and exciting holiday for many individuals. Carving pumpkins, creating an elaborate costume, decorating the home, and getting the candy bowl all ready is just half the fun! Creating spooky sounds on a CD can really enhance the overall mood of the Halloween holiday.

Spooky sounds and music that is considered to be scary can really set the pace when it comes to this night of spooks and haunts! Here, I will share some information with you on how to create your own Halloween music CD.

The first thing that you need to do in order to create the best CD ever for Halloween, is to go online and locate clips and sounds that are offered on numerous websites. There are many stores that specialize in selling these sounds, while other websites offer them for free. In order to brew up a good stew of spooky sounds and music, you will need to dedicate some time to researching the files that you run across.

If you are having a difficult time coming up with some holloween sounds that you like, there are a couple of websites out there that specialize in this type of music. These include “Classic Halloween Sound Effects”, and even “Halloween Culture Classics”.

Now, you will want to create a playlist in Windows Media Player of the sounds and music that you save to your computer. You can name this “Halloween music CD”, this way it can be easily identified once you are ready to burn the CD of Halloween music.

Now, you will want to be sure that you have the hardware on your computer that is necessary to burn the CD. A basic CD burner is about all that is required if you are using Windows Media Player. If you do not have a burner on your system, you can purchase an external CD/DVD burner at any electronics store for anywhere between $50.00 and $200.00 that will do. External units simply connect to your computer through a USB port.

Now, you will want to determine what type of CD that you need to use to burn the Halloween music. Once you make this determination, purchase the blank media CD and put it in the CD burner. Now, as you look on Windows Media Player, you will see a button that says “Burn”, simply hit this and the playlist will automatically copy to the blank media CD. Once this is done, the CD drive door will open and your Halloween music CD will be ready for you!

Daryl Plaza is a regular contributor to www.spookynite.com supplying you with all the information and resources you need to know about Halloween costumes, Halloween food recipes, Halloween party ideas.