Cannot play CD-R on regular CD player

"mwm" <mwmaxwell@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I have successfully downloaded and recorded 30 minutes of music onto a
> Memorex CD-R and it plays back beautifully on WMP 9.0. I cannot, however,
> get one note to play on my regular CD player. Anyone know why not?
>
>

If you didn't "close the disk" so that no further data could be written to
it, a burnt CD will not play on home audio equipment. If this is the case,
you can go back into your burning software and close the disk. By default,
the burning software I've used is set by default to close the disk when set
to burn an "audio CD." You did burn an "audio" CD, I'm assuming- a "data"
CD full of mp3 files will play on your computer but not on most home CD
players.

The other possibility is that your home CD player just doesn't deal very
well with CD-R media. Many don't- even players that are only a couple of
years old, as I've experienced personally. Try the CD on a different player
to see if it will play there.

Regards,
Ian.

Ian,

I'm having the same problem mwm is. I created the audio
cd with the wpm copy to cd function. I can't find an
option in WPM to "close" the cd. Do you know where it is ?

Steve

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>"mwm" <mwmaxwell@comcast.net> wrote in message
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of music onto a

9.0. I cannot, however,

know why not?

>
>If you didn't "close the disk" so that no further data

could be written to

>it, a burnt CD will not play on home audio equipment.

If this is the case,

>you can go back into your burning software and close the

disk. By default,

>the burning software I've used is set by default to

close the disk when set

>to burn an "audio CD." You did burn an "audio" CD, I'm

assuming- a "data"

>CD full of mp3 files will play on your computer but not

on most home CD

>players.
>
>The other possibility is that your home CD player just

doesn't deal very

>well with CD-R media. Many don't- even players that are

only a couple of

>years old, as I've experienced personally. Try the CD

on a different player

>to see if it will play there.
>
>Regards,
>Ian.
>
>
>.
>

"steve whitney" <spw2@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Ian,
>
> I'm having the same problem mwm is. I created the audio
> cd with the wpm copy to cd function. I can't find an
> option in WPM to "close" the cd. Do you know where it is ?
>
> Steve

Hi, Steve:

You know, I don't think I've ever actually used WMP to burn a CD. I've
always used MusicMatch Jukebox, EasyCD Creator and now the retail version of
Nero. But I just had a look in the WMP Help files, and it looks like WMP
does the "close CD" thing automatically. From the "Creating your own CDs"
section:

"Complete. The CD is not finished until Complete is displayed in the Status
column for each track. When the last track is copied, Closing disc is
displayed briefly for the last track."

You might be experiencing the same problem I had at first with my then-new
Technics CD player- it just wouldn't play CD-R discs properly. I must have
thrown a good dozen discs in the garbage back then, figuring that they were
useless, before I finally realized it was the player that was causing the
problem as opposed to the way I'd created my CDs. Maybe try playing your CD
on a friend's CD player to see if that works.

I'm sorry I couldn't be more helpful regarding WMP specifically. EasyCD or
Nero must have come bundled with your CD burner though, and I've always
found them to be easy to use and effective. You might want to try that
software instead of Media Player for burning CDs, but it's not really clear
that WMP is to blame in this case.

Regards,
Ian.