No, you can use it to make a CD.

It records digitally on the same kind of memory card that digital cameras use. The Zoom H2 records in either WAV or MP3. From there, you can download it to your computer's hard drive with a USB cable. Then, you can do pretty much anything you want with it. Edit it using music editing software, change formats if you wish, burn it to a data CD or a music CD.

Commercial CDs are recorded in CDA format, so to burn it to a CD and play it on regular equipment, it may be necessary to convert it from WAV to CDA, which you can do on the computer. Format conversion software is available on the internet free for the download.

So there are a couple of steps involved. But I don't think there is an easier, less expensive way of recording something and putting it on a CD to listen to.

Don Firth