Help with backing up music

I want to back up my purchaced music on a cd. I already did back up 2 songs. But when I wanted to back up another song at a different time it said I need a blank disc.
There has got to be another way of backing up on a disc and not wasting space on a disc everytime you want to back up just a song.
Has anyone got any suggestions?

See if this can help;
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/itunes/it7-1.html
Cheers!
-Bryan

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Again check out the user manual Apple did a real good job with this one.
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3. Yes.
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Last night, I saw that out of 120gb I have about 5gb left on my G4.!
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Now, if I go to the external and click on pictures folder, I can see all of my originals folders (2002-2008), but when I open iphoto, they are not in iphoto.?
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