Audio/video from internet direct to compact disc through web browser

摘要

A system and method for automatically creating user-customized compact discs (CDs) (112) containing multimedia tracks available over the Internet is presented. CD creation software (106) resident on the user's computer (102) or that is downloaded (304) from a web site that contains managed multimedia content is launched (308) from an Internet browser (104). The CD creation software (106) allows the user to select desired tracks (204) from a list of multimedia tracks (202) available from the managed web site. The selected tracks (204) are downloaded (318) from the web site and recorded onto a portable CD (112) at the user's request (212), or automatically per a user-specified schedule (214).