How do I make "greatest hits" w/out CDRW changer

[stemata]

I very recently purchased a CD-RW drive (Sony CRX175M). I thought (wrongly) that I could use my CD-ROM to make my own "greatest hits" from various audio CDs. I wasted several CD-RW discs before I learned anything about "multisession," and the fact that CD players don't read in multisession. In other words, I burned one song from a disc, and then found out that I couldn't continue to burn additional songs onto the same disc. How can I do this without a CD-RW changer? Is there some way that I can copy the songs onto my hard drive (such as in MP3 format), and then burn the songs all at once onto the CD-RW disc? Any other suggestions will be helpful. Thanks for your help!

[skins]

Go get winamp or simillar from www.shareware.com and read the help files.
Or just use windows media player to record straight to your hard drive. Then when you go to burn a cd make sure you choose audio and not multisession style of burn and then just pick and mix from your hard drive what you want to compile.

Pay attention to software you use, burning software will sometimes finalise a cd, i.e no more recording possible, because it has to, but more often than not its the users choice. So if you don't want or don't have to finalise a cd, then don't.

[bitrate]

The best and easiest way I've found to rip audio cd's is to use musicmatch jukebox. You can download it from musicmatch.com.

It's quick and easy and you can save your songs to the HD in mp3 or wav format...then select all you want and burn away