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Need help with CD problem
Posted on 12/02/2004 5:31:17 PM PST by vanburen
I used Adaptec to download music onto a disc.
The disc. will play using Window's Media Player but will not work in my pickup CD player.
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posted on
12/02/2004 5:31:18 PM PST
by
vanburen
To: vanburen
Use your Windows file browser and see if the CD contains files named with the MP3 extension
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posted on
12/02/2004 5:32:40 PM PST
by
Abcdefg
To: vanburen
Make sure you create the CD as an 'audio' CD and not a 'data' CD.
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posted on
12/02/2004 5:33:57 PM PST
by
kizzdogg
To: Abcdefg
...or *.WMA. I think the format you want is *.cda (CD Audio)
To: kizzdogg
Make sure you create the CD as an 'audio' CD and not a 'data' CD.Yep that'll do it. Some CD players won't recognize audio tracks burned onto a CD-RW disc, but will always recognize audio tracks burned onto a CD-R disc.
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posted on
12/02/2004 5:36:09 PM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Congratulations President-Re-Elect George W. Bush!)
To: vanburen
You have to make sure you format the CD for music and not just data or it won't work outside your computer. You may want to check to see how you formatted it.
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posted on
12/02/2004 5:36:09 PM PST
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: vanburen
To play in ordinary audio CD players, CDs have to be burned specifically as an audio CD. Otherwise, you're just putting files on the CD in a format that the player won't understand. Whatever burner software you're using should have a "make audio CD" feature. Personally, I use the
Nero CD burning software to make my audio (and other) CDs. I think they have a free trial that you can download from their site.
To: BigSkyFreeper; vanburen
Well, I guess we all agree on the problem and its solution. Aren't FReepers just GRAND? :o)
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posted on
12/02/2004 5:39:14 PM PST
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: vanburen
It seems you need to have another new CD and do it again correctly.
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posted on
12/02/2004 5:40:32 PM PST
by
paudio
(Four More Years..... Let's Use Them Wisely...)
To: arasina
I learned the CD-RW's won't play in my home stereo. :) Luckily I could erase what was on the disc. LOL
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posted on
12/02/2004 5:43:42 PM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Congratulations President-Re-Elect George W. Bush!)
To: John Jorsett
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posted on
12/02/2004 5:44:10 PM PST
by
vanburen
To: BigSkyFreeper
The needle scratches the heck out of my CDs.
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posted on
12/02/2004 5:44:36 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(I come swinging the olive branch of peace.)
To: cripplecreek
You have to admit, it makes a nice ambient white noise.
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posted on
12/02/2004 5:46:59 PM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Congratulations President-Re-Elect George W. Bush!)
To: vanburen
The other thing you need to do is to make sure you 'finalize' the CD (an option on Nero, others handle it as being a 'multisession cd') Most car stereos will not play a CD that is not 'finalized'.
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posted on
12/02/2004 6:20:52 PM PST
by
kingu
(Which would you bet on? Iraq and Afghanistan? Or Haiti and Kosovo?)
To: kingu
some older auto cd players won't play CD-Rs at all either. You need to make sure the equipment you're using (CD player) is compatible with the media you're using... You will want to use the music CD feature of easy cd creator (if I remember correctly that's what you stated you were using), and you want to burn with the disc at once record method (this will keep extra blank space from between the tracks you burn onto the CD).
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