writeable/rewriteable cds

balletshoes

help please -

i've just burned a cd from the laptop, but its not playing on any of our cd players. it works fine when played on the laptop though. anyone know what i've done wrong? i'm using the same cds to burn music onto that i used on my desktop, and i managed that successfully. the laptop asked for a re-writeable disc to be used, which i'm not sure mine are. would this be why the cds only play on the laptop, and not in normal cd players?

thanks for any help,

timbim_2

A lot of older CD players aren't compatible with CD-RW formats. For music, use CD-R instead.

balletshoes

timbim wrote: »

A lot of older CD players aren't compatible with CD-RW formats. For music, use CD-R instead.

its CD-R i'm using - no joy .

debitcardmayhem

What did you use to write it with, and did you "finalise" it, ?

balletshoes

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

What did you use to write it with, and did you "finalise" it, ?

i'm using windows 7 wizard, following all instructions as far as i know, and letting the laptop do all the work (it opens the disc drive and tells me the disc has been burned successfully). should i change the settings to lower than 24 x, which the wizard has set for itself? would that make any difference?

timbim_2

What have you burnt to the CD? MP3 files, WAV files, or have you actually selected an option to burn an audio cd?

balletshoes

timbim wrote: »

What have you burnt to the CD? MP3 files, WAV files, or have you actually selected an option to burn an audio cd?

i'm not getting an option to choose to burn an audio cd this time, but i'm sure thats what i chose first time i tried it. the file i'm burning says m3u. can you tell i'm pretty lost?

balletshoes

aha - sorted it! i moved the whole file over to windows media player, and burned it to audio cd from there. thanks for the suggestions folks .