Short questions !
Looooongish answers, I'm afraid !
First, and there will probably be all manner of creatures around here coming in after me to argue about some of this, but...
If you are just starting out in all of this crazy p2p and burning and ripping stuff, you cannot possibly go wrong with using
Musicmatch Jukebox... You can get it by clicking on the same in my 'sig' below...
You can take the 'free' version or buy it... There are VERY few programs out there that I would ever even dream of suggesting that people should 'buy' when there are 'free' alternatives, but...
Musicmatch Jukebox is certainly an exception... Fantastic value for money and it is continuously being improved.
It does more things than you'll probably even be able to learn about in the first few months of having it !
And, for 'tagging' of music files, including 'album cover art', NOTHING beats it !
Next, if you want to be a bit more 'sophisticated' and have practically total control over every step of what you are doing, get
CDex 1.51 for converting from/to/between different formats... It is Free and is excellent... Simple also which is a bit of a miracle !
A very good program.
You are only going to be doing conversions from .mp3 to .wav in the beginning, but later... ???
After you get CDex 1.51 you should get
NERO CD Burning ROM...
There is an 'evaluation' version available to start with...
Both of the latter programs mentioned can also, obviously, be downloaded by clicking on the links in my 'sig'...
Now the probable argument starter stuff...
I would strongly recommend that you say 'adios' to Roxio...
It is very temperamental stuff and usually causes more grief than it's worth...
btw... Please, if you have a drive which supports writing to CD-RW disks (ReWritable), first practice using them... 'Coasters', or dead CDs lose there charm quickly as they pile up in the corner !
However, normally you do NOT want to use CD-RW disks for making CDs which are meant to be played in a 'normal' CD player... They may work, but the odds are against you !
There's loads more on all of these subjects, but you might as well start going a little more crazy first by doing it...
Then you can have some Really Bizarre questions to ask...
lol