Re: Can No Longer Burn Playable CDs - Help!!!
- From: Mike Williams <mikew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:50:54 +0000
Pam wrote:
Recently I've been having a lot of problems burning music CDs. When the CD is completed, the program always says that the burn was successful, however, when I try to play it in my home stereo or car stereo, it will play to the end of the first track and then go back and repeat about the last 10 or 15 seconds of that track. I have to manually advance it to the next track. Then it does the same thing with every track up until about track 10 (out of about 20 tracks) where it stops dead still. At that point it won't even let me advance it manually to the next track. I can make it play on the computer, but there are some strange little noises and skips on every song.
I've done a lot of troubleshooting, and I've determined that the problem has to be with my computer. I'm running Windows XP Home Edition with SP2, and I always turn off the screensaver, firewall and antivirus program before starting to record, and the mp3 files I'm using are ones that I have burned to CDs before. I know there's nothing wrong with them.
It matters not which CD burning program I use. I've tried Roxio 5, Roxio 7 (that I just got with my new DVD/CD burner), Nero, and Windows Media Player. I also have a second CD burner on the same computer, and I've tried burning with that one, too. The results are always the same. It also cannot be the blank CD-R's I'm using, because I have recorded many CDs of the same brand from the same package, and they all play beautifully.
I really need some help. I've yet to try burning a DVD since I got the new burner for fear that it won't work right either. I've made about 10 CD coasters now, and this wastefulness is starting to get expensive. I'd appreciate any suggestions any of you might have, but please explain in layman's terms. Thanks in advance! .....Pam
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/knowledgecenter/mediaadvice/0091.mspx#EKF
Why doesn't the CD player in my car play the CDs that I burn?
Your CD player might not be able to play the CD for several reasons, including the following:
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It can only play audio CDs and you have burned a data CD. Data CDs can be played only in your computer and in some newer CD players. When creating data CDs, the Player burns your WMA and MP3 files to the CD in their current format without converting them for an audio CD. Consequently, the CD player that you use to play a data CD must be able to play WMA or MP3 files.
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It can play data CDs, but can't play the type of files that are burned on your data CD. (For example, it can play WMA files but not MP3 files.)
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It can play data CDs, but can't play protected files (for example, you burned a licensed WMA file that you purchased from an online store to your data CD).
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It can play data CDs, but can't play the particular brand or type of disc that you used.
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It can't play data CDs that have not been finalized. For more information about this issue, see question 7.4, "When I burn a CD, does the Player 'finalize' or 'close' the disc?" in the Windows Media Player FAQ.
Review the documentation that came with your CD player to determine its playback capabilities, and then do one of the following:
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Burn audio CDs, not data CDs. If your CD player can't play a data CD that contains either WMA or MP3 files, or it can't play protected files, then burn the tracks to an audio CD (not a data CD) on CD-R (not CD-RW) media. An audio CD plays in most CD players (in your home stereo, your portable CD player, your car stereo, your computer, and so forth). When creating audio CDs, the Player converts your WMA and MP3 files to the pulse code modulation (PCM) format that standard CD players can play, before burning them to disc.
Follow the instructions in the next question for burning a CD in your version of the Player. However, in step 8, click the Audio CD option to burn an audio CD.
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Convert your files to another format. If your CD player can play data CDs, but the files in your library are in the wrong format (for example, your CD player supports WMA playback, but the files in your library are in MP3 format), you can use Plus! Audio Converter, a feature in Microsoft Plus! SuperPack for Windows XP, to convert your MP3 files to WMA files. (This also works in reverse, from WMA to MP3.) Then, follow the instructions in the next question to burn the converted files to a data CD in your version of the Player.
If you are using Windows Media Player 9 Series, in addition to purchasing the Plus! SuperPack, you must purchase and install an MP3 Creation plug-in that is compatible with the Player.
If you are using Windows Media Player 10, in addition to purchasing the Plus! SuperPack, you must install a Plus! Audio Converter Update. You do not have to purchase and install an MP3 creation plug-in.
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If your CD player can't play data CDs that have not been finalized, you must use another CD burning or authoring software program to burn a finalized data CD.
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