This article describes how to manage music on your Xbox console. Additionally, this article describes how to create or delete soundtracks, and how to add or delete songs from soundtracks.

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The Xbox video game system from Microsoft only plays music CDs that are in the standard CD Digital Audio (CD-DA) format.

You can play audio CDs in your Xbox console, and you can copy tracks from audio CDs to your Xbox console. After you copy tracks to your Xbox console, you can arrange these tracks into soundtracks so that you do not have to use the original music CD.

Note The Xbox console supports up to 100 soundtracks with up to 500 individual tracks on each soundtrack.

Additionally, you can play soundtracks when you play Xbox game titles that support this feature. You can only play your own soundtrack during a game if the specific game title supports this feature. To determine whether a game title supports soundtrack play or how to play the soundtrack during a game, view the settings menu in the game or read the instruction manual for the game.

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Copy CD audio tracks to the Xbox hard disk

1.	Turn on your Xbox console.
2.	Put a music CD in the disc tray, and then close the disc tray.
3.	The Xbox console automatically starts to play the CD. Press the B button to select Back to view the Audio CD screen.
4.	On the Audio CD screen, press the D-pad down to select Copy to view a list of the tracks on your music CD.
5.	From the list of audio tracks, press the D-pad up or down to scroll through the track list, and then press the A button to select each track that you want to copy. Note You can select one track, multiple tracks, or all the tracks.
6.	After you select the tracks that you want, press the D-pad right to select Copy, and then press the A button to view the Choose Soundtrack screen.
7.	On the Choose Soundtrack screen, press the D-pad up or down to select an existing soundtrack or to create a new soundtrack, and then press the A button. Note If you create a new soundtrack, use the on-screen keyboard to enter a name for the soundtrack, select Done, and then press the A button. You receive the following message: Copying tracks. Please do not remove the Cd or turn off your Xbox console.
8.	After your console is finished copying the tracks, you return to the audio CD track list.

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Play the soundtracks that you created

1.	Remove all discs from the disc tray, and then restart the Xbox console.
2.	On the Main Menu screen, press the D-pad up or down to select Music, and then press the A button.
3.	On the Music screen, press the D-pad up or down to select the soundtrack that you want to play, and then press the A button. Note All the soundtracks that you create appear on the Music screen.
4.	On the soundtrack name screen, press the D-pad up or down to select Play, and then press the A button to view the list of tracks for that specific soundtrack.
5.	From the soundtrack list, press the D-pad up or down to select the track that you want to play, and then press the A button.

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Delete a track from a soundtrack

1.	Remove all discs from the disc tray, and then restart the Xbox console.
2.	On the Main Menu screen, press the D-pad up or down to select Music, and then press the A button.
3.	On the Music screen, press the D-pad up or down to select the soundtrack that you want to modify, and then press the A button.
4.	On the soundtrack name screen, press the D-pad up or down to select Edit, and then press the A button to view the list of tracks for that specific soundtrack.
5.	From the soundtrack list, press the D-pad up or down to select the track that you want to delete, press the D-pad left or right to select Delete, and then press the A button. You receive the following message: Are you sure you want to permanently delete this track?
6.	Press the D-pad left or right to select Yes, and then press the A button.

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Delete a whole soundtrack

1.	Remove all discs from the disc tray, and then restart the Xbox console.
2.	On the Main Menu screen, press the D-pad up or down to select Music, and then press the A button.
3.	On the Music screen, press the D-pad up or down to select the soundtrack that you want to modify, and then press the A button.
4.	On the soundtrack name screen, press the D-pad up or down to select Remove, and then press the A button. You receive the following message: Are you sure you want to permanently remove this soundtrack?
5.	Press the D-pad left or right to select Yes, and then press the A button.

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Move a track from one soundtrack to a different soundtrack

1.	Remove all the discs from the disc tray, and then restart the Xbox console.
2.	On the Main Menu screen, press the D-pad up or down to select Music, and then press the A button.
3.	On the Music screen, press the D-pad up or down to select the soundtrack that you want to copy from, and then press the A button.
4.	On the soundtrack name screen, press the D-pad up or down to select Copy, and then press the A button to view the list of tracks for that specific soundtrack.
5.	From the soundtrack list, press the D-pad up or down to select the tracks that you want to copy, press the D-pad left or right to select Copy, and then press the A button.
6.	On the Choose Soundtrack screen, press the D-pad up or down to select the soundtrack that you want to copy to, and then press the A button.

After you copy the tracks that you selected, you view the track list of the soundtrack that you copied to.

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