Copying Music CDs

Cardew

I recently copied 3 CDs on my PC using the supplied Power2Go program.



The copy of a recently bought CD(Queen’s greatest hits) plays on all devices. However the copies of 2 much older CDs(Abba and Nancy & Lee) won’t play on any of my devices except my car CD player.



They won’t even play on the PC that I used to copy all three. However these CDs copied to a USB memory stick play OK on my TV and PCs.


Has anyone any ideas please why the 2 CDs won’t play on most devices; and any remedy?

dipsomaniac

strange. i would try ripping them again via windows media player. i am no expert but i just save as mp3 but some may say you need a more loss less format like flac or similar

Heedtheadvice

There historically used to be a few issues with some CDs not playing on a few players. Usually down to either the cd, the playef or both not being fully compliant with the standard (red book from memory). I used to keep an older PC CD drive as it coped with everything.


You post does describe similar symptoms. Perhaps the ABBA cds have a shortfall that your burning software cannot cope with properly? Try burning with other software AVS4U have a greatly compatible burner for free as one of their suite of programs. Edit: there are others!


Alternatively it could just be a compatibility problem (alignment or poor laser writing) between your burning drive and playing drives. Edit: In which case try burning on another drive (preferrable) or even burning again at slower speed


Lastly (if the above fail) it might just be a protection issue but I would guess that the least likely and only address that if the first two reasons fixes fail.

googler

Take the CDs, put each in a/your PC, and inspect the content with File Explorer or similar.

Each should, if burned as a standard "red book" CD, have a number of .cda files, of Type "CD Audio Track". This should play on any standard CD player

If you have any other kind of files, it's not a standard CD. (mp3, aac, flac, etc)

CardinalWolsey

Your other alternative, rather than trying to "copy" the CD's, is to rip the contents and then re-encode. e.g. convert the CD to a number of MP3 files, and then use those and an appropriate CD burner to create a "new" CD and burn it.

EssexExile

I ripped all my CDs, ancient & modern, using the standard Windows Media Player. No problems playing the music on anything so far.

BigAl94

I have always used Ashampoo free edition and find it superb https://www.ashampoo.com/en/usd/pin/7110/burning-software/burning-studio-free