Choose an artist. Pick the songs. Find your champion.
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The decision is the product
Burn CD turns a difficult music question into a sequence of small choices: which song would you keep when only one can advance? Search for one artist, review the catalog that is currently available, choose a field, and decide every matchup until a champion remains. Instead of asking you to rank dozens of titles at once, the tool keeps each decision focused on two songs.
A Burn CD tournament records the route through qualification and knockout rounds. The progress row names the stage, each result advances a real song, and the completed competition preserves the winner's path. It is a personal decision tool, not a popularity poll, streaming chart, or instruction about what others should prefer.
Burn CD is free to use and needs no account. Adjust the field, play a provider preview when one exists, and use Undo to reconsider the latest choice. The result belongs to that run of the bracket.
Burn CD begins with an artist rather than a fixed list of famous tracks. Enter a name, choose the matching artist result, and the site requests album and song information from Apple's iTunes Search API. That request can return artwork, release names, track titles, identifiers, and preview URLs. The artist you confirm becomes the source for the selection screen; unrelated search results do not enter the tournament.
The record cases represent current catalog responses rather than a permanent library owned by Burn CD. Storefront, network, spelling, and provider availability change what appears. A regional title may be absent elsewhere, and a preview can disappear while its metadata remains.
Different releases can contain the same song. Burn CD keeps entries separate when the provider supplies different track identities, so a remaster, live recording, or compilation appearance may remain selectable. Full titles help you recognize those versions before building the field.
Empty results and provider failures offer a retry path instead of invented songs. Return to the shelf, try another spelling, choose a different result, or search later.
Tournament format
Burn CD supports fields of 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, and 48 songs. The selected field determines where the competition begins, but every supported path ends with direct elimination and one champion. A four-song field starts close to the semifinal. A 32-song field begins at the full round of 32. Larger formats add qualification before the knockout bracket.
The largest Burn CD format starts with 48 songs divided across twelve groups. Two songs qualify from each group, creating 24 confirmed places. A last-chance stage then asks you to recover eight more songs, completing the 32-song knockout field. From that point, every matchup removes one track while its opponent advances through the round of 16, quarterfinal, semifinal, and final.
Fields of 24 and 40 also use qualification before elimination. Burn CD calculates the correct route for the supported size rather than padding the tournament with fictional tracks. The competition screen names the active stage, marks the rounds already passed, and shows the route still ahead. Milestone notices appear at round boundaries so the move from qualification to knockout, or from quarterfinal to semifinal, feels like a real tournament transition.
Spread the starting set across the releases returned for the artist, then review every selected title.
Shuffle the available catalog for a less predictable field while keeping the result editable.
Build the exact supported field you want before the first tournament decision.
Burn CD offers these three starting strategies because selecting the field is a different task from choosing matchup winners. Balanced mode provides a broad starting point across returned releases. Surprise Me changes the order and selection so familiar favorites do not always define the bracket. Manual mode gives you direct control over which songs enter.
Every route keeps the song list visible before play. Search a large returned catalog, reveal more results, remove an unwanted entry, and add another available recording. The counter shows when the field reaches the required size. Before continuing, check alternate versions, live titles, featured credits, and release names; the field represents your selection, not a definitive discography.
Each Burn CD matchup presents two candidates from your field. Artwork and complete titles identify the recordings, and a play control appears for a secure provider preview. Starting one preview stops the previous one; selecting a song also stops its audio before the next decision.
Previews are short catalog samples, not full-song streams. Burn CD never starts one merely because a card appears, and a missing preview does not remove its song. Compare from memory, use another listening source, or decide from the release information shown.
The larger choice surface advances the winner. Optional interface sound is separate from music playback and begins disabled. If enabled, short mechanical and milestone cues acknowledge actions without creating a continuous soundtrack. Reduced-motion settings remove nonessential depth while preserving the same controls and outcome.
Burn CD stores current progress in the browser after valid transitions. Undo moves back one decision at a time, including qualification and knockout choices, so a mistaken tap does not require rebuilding the field. It disables when no earlier choice remains.
Burn CD asks for no profile before search, selection, or play. Active progress and finished local results use browser storage, allowing a refresh or return visit to restore supported state. This does not create an account, synchronize devices, or turn choices into public votes.
Clearing site data removes those records. Starting a new tournament resets active progress on the current device. A copied invitation contains compact setup information for reconstructing its field and strategy; it is not a hosted profile or remote result page.
Artist and song searches request current information from Apple's iTunes Search API. Google Analytics measures page visits and device information and may set cookies. Query strings are stripped from Analytics page locations and referrers, with no custom events for artists, songs, previews, choices, invitations, or results.
The Privacy page explains these boundaries, Terms covers personal use and catalog ownership, and About describes the private comparison tool. Song names, artist names, artwork, previews, and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.
Burn CD works best with a focused question. Compare an artist's studio favorites, returned live recordings, songs from one period, or a four-song shortlist. The tool needs no universal definition of “best”; it needs a field that fits your current decision.
A solo session can turn a vague favorite into a visible path of tradeoffs. Friends can pass the device between matchups, or a listening group can project the bracket and discuss each advance. These are suggested uses, not claims about existing customers or events.
The same artist can produce another champion when the field, versions, order, or mood changes. Burn CD keeps completed local results separate on the Local results page. That history records your runs, not a public ranking.
Check alternate mixes, remasters, featured credits, and live versions, then choose the smallest supported field that contains what you want to compare. Shuffled order can create early collisions between favorites; that is part of direct elimination, not a scoring error.
Burn CD depends on a public provider and network for search, artwork, metadata, and previews. It cannot promise every song, release, region, or sample. Results may be renamed, replaced, or unavailable after catalog updates.
The site validates provider URLs before showing artwork or audio controls. Only absolute secure media URLs are accepted. If an image cannot be used, the interface preserves the text identity of the song. If audio initialization or playback fails, the error stays non-blocking so you can continue deciding without sound.
Burn CD adapts to narrow viewports, coarse pointers, right-to-left routes, and reduced-motion preferences. Long catalog titles must fit cards and bracket nodes, so a visual label may shorten while the selected track retains its full title.
There is no database-backed public ranking, follower system, comments, or cross-device library. The core task is to choose an artist, build a valid field, complete the matchups, and leave with a champion and bracket image.
It compares selected songs through direct matchups until one winner remains. Burn CD adds artist search, editable fields, qualification for larger formats, progress, Undo, and a complete result image.
Supported fields are 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, and 48 songs. Fields of 24, 40, and 48 use qualification. The returned catalog must contain enough usable entries for the chosen size.
Yes. Manual mode builds an exact supported field. Balanced and shuffled presets also remain editable, so you can remove alternate releases, add returned favorites, or change the lineup.
No. A control appears only for a provider preview URL. Samples vary by storefront or can disappear, but a song with metadata and no preview remains usable.
No. Progress and local results stay in browser storage on the current device. Clearing site data removes them, and they do not synchronize automatically.
After the final, Burn CD generates a 1920 x 1080 PNG with the bracket, winners, champion, site address, and QR code. Preview it, then save it or use supported native file sharing.