MP3 cd won't play on computer

castle96

son made cd for me "just bung in computer"
however nothing plays ! Do I need something special.
Computer is 2 yr old HP desktop Pavilion a6421.uk

What am I missing ?

thanks

Quaint1

Windows Media Player should play the mp3's for you - in fact, it is usually the default player on Windows PC's!
What happens when you double click one of the MP3's on the CD - do you get any error messages?
Au Res.,
Paul

castle96

WMP does come up
thereis a list of the contents of the cd
nothing happens.... bar, poota went wobbly and screen got 'bigger', shut down, had to restart in 'normal mode'
ooh, er...
just didnt seem to like it

googler

Do you mean it doesn't start playing when you put the disc in?

Solution; go to My Computer or Computer, and 'Explore' or 'Open' the drive in which you've inserted the disc. This should give you a list of mp3 files, assuming other party involved has successfully burned them.

With this list of files, you can right-click one, or a selected group, and in the sub-menu, select 'Play'. This should kick off your default mp3 player program, in most cases, Windoze Media Player.

Tell us what you're doing to play them, and any error messages or dialogue boxes you're getting.

googler

Oops, we crossed.

Need more detail - with the CD, open the CD drive, right-click on one of the files, and select properties - confirm that you definitely have .mp3 files on the CD......

castle96

auto play WMP comes up
first track starts, then off, then "WMP not repsonding"
then track comes on again (no list showing),
blank screen
then sound/trac goes off.....

davetrousers

Forget Autoplay

Do as googler says above.

KillerWatt

castle96 wrote: »

auto play WMP comes up
first track starts, then off, then "WMP not repsonding"
then track comes on again (no list showing),
blank screen
then sound/trac goes off.....

Sounds like your son has used cheap crap blanks to record the data on, get him to make the disc again but using quality media instead.