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TheHappyBurgerMeister · 03-25-2005, 10:41 PM

I need some help with burning songs on a CD. Yesterday I bought a pack of CD-RW cd's to burn songs on CD's. Well, I burned one for my mom yesterday but the only problem is it will NOT play in any other CD player except my computer cd player. I KNOW it burned the songs because I took out the CD and then put it back into the cd drive and it worked there. I tried it on 3 different CD players and it would not play the CD at all! I'm kind of pissed off because I spent 10 bucks on these CD's! I really HOPE that they can be played other places besides my computer.

So anyone know WHY the cd won't play on other players??

robyrob · 03-25-2005, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by TheHappyBurgerMeister

I need some help with burning songs on a CD. Yesterday I bought a pack of CD-RW cd's to burn songs on CD's. Well, I burned one for my mom yesterday but the only problem is it will NOT play in any other CD player except my computer cd player. I KNOW it burned the songs because I took out the CD and then put it back into the cd drive and it worked there. I tried it on 3 different CD players and it would not play the CD at all! I'm kind of pissed off because I spent 10 bucks on these CD's! I really HOPE that they can be played other places besides my computer.

So anyone know WHY the cd won't play on other players??

2 things:

1. you need to make sure that the other cd-players are CDRW compatible - not all players can read these disks, you'd have less problems with the write-once CDR's

2. you need to finalize the disks - basically close the disks so that the table that designates where all the files are is complete, any standalone cdplayer needs this to be able to read it. How to do this depends on which software you are using, but it should give you instructions in the help files.

musicradio77 · 03-25-2005, 11:03 PM

I use CD-R's. They're great!

TheHappyBurgerMeister · 03-25-2005, 11:18 PM

I just went to the help section at iTunes and found this:

<i>If you plan to play the CD on a consumer CD player, you need to use a blank CD-R disc, not a CD-RW disc.</i>

The guy at the store told us to buy the CD-RW kind because it's faster! Idiot. I'm really pissed off now. I doubt I can return them now since I already opened the package up! Well, I won't make THAT mistake again!

Thanks for your help anyway!

Hollow · 03-25-2005, 11:21 PM

only CD-Rs work on cd players.

TheHappyBurgerMeister · 03-25-2005, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by safety pin

only CD-Rs work on cd players.

yeah, NOW I know that- unfortunately. That guy at store was stupid then- or else he DID know that and just wanted to rip me off.

Hollow · 03-25-2005, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by TheHappyBurgerMeister

yeah, NOW I know that- unfortunately. That guy at store was stupid then- or else he DID know that and just wanted to rip me off.

most likely. :/

robyrob · 03-25-2005, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TheHappyBurgerMeister

yeah, NOW I know that- unfortunately. That guy at store was stupid then- or else he DID know that and just wanted to rip me off.

complain to the manager, tell him your story and point the guy who "helped" you out to him, maybe he'll give you some credit for some blank cdr's...

03-25-2005, 10:41 PM	#1
TheHappyBurgerMeister Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 23, 2002 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 2,209	Burning CD's- HELP! I need some help with burning songs on a CD. Yesterday I bought a pack of CD-RW cd's to burn songs on CD's. Well, I burned one for my mom yesterday but the only problem is it will NOT play in any other CD player except my computer cd player. I KNOW it burned the songs because I took out the CD and then put it back into the cd drive and it worked there. I tried it on 3 different CD players and it would not play the CD at all! I'm kind of pissed off because I spent 10 bucks on these CD's! I really HOPE that they can be played other places besides my computer. So anyone know WHY the cd won't play on other players??
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03-25-2005, 11:18 PM	#4
TheHappyBurgerMeister Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 23, 2002 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 2,209	I just went to the help section at iTunes and found this: <i>If you plan to play the CD on a consumer CD player, you need to use a blank CD-R disc, not a CD-RW disc.</i> The guy at the store told us to buy the CD-RW kind because it's faster! Idiot. I'm really pissed off now. I doubt I can return them now since I already opened the package up! Well, I won't make THAT mistake again! Thanks for your help anyway!

03-25-2005, 11:21 PM	#5
Hollow Member Forum Superstar Join Date: Dec 16, 2001 Posts: 30,406	only CD-Rs work on cd players.