Playing burned CD
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Playing burned CD
My daughter has downloaded music and then burned it on a CD but it won't play in the car (99 Mountaineer with single CD player unit). She uses Nero to copy the music. Any ideas how how to get it to play in car?
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Will the CD play in other CD players (that aren't computers)? The factory single-disc in my '97 Ranger has developed an aversion to burned CDs in the last couple years. It usually will play the first half or so before it becomes too staticky or gets confused and loses its place. Plays commercial CDs okay still. That's due to dirt inside it, I think. I used that as an excuse to buy an iPod, rather than fix it.
If the CD won't play in ANY CD players, make sure she burned it in the right format. I haven't used Nero for a couple years, so I don't remember how to check it or what they call the setting you need to use, but if she burned the music as data files instead of music files, your car won't be able to read them.
If the CD won't play in ANY CD players, make sure she burned it in the right format. I haven't used Nero for a couple years, so I don't remember how to check it or what they call the setting you need to use, but if she burned the music as data files instead of music files, your car won't be able to read them.
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Make sure the burner is configured to burn an audio CD in disc-at-once or track-at-once mode. Also ensure that the disc is "closed" upon completion of the burn. These settings should be in one of the options menus.
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Some older CD players don't do well with burned discs. You may want to see if you can get a disc burnt with another computer, or another brand of disc. I know the CD player in my 98 is very picky.
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I really doubt if it's the radio. I'm playing home disks on an (late) '80's Pioneer 6 disk changer. Works fine. You have to pay attention when burning the disks as per above suggestions. If you don't finalize the cd, it'll play on computer, but not a home or car cd player. Also, burn it as a wave file (or wmp), NOT a mp3.
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Choose "Burn Audio CD" and drag your mp3's to the layout; burn. You'll only be able to put 74 or 80 minutes of music on the disc, depending on the capacity of the disc.
Maybe it's "Create Audio CD"... haven't used Nero in a while.
Maybe it's "Create Audio CD"... haven't used Nero in a while.
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One of the things I've done which has made 100% effective discs, every time, is to slow down the burn to 4x. I could never get my system to read the disks (normal or MP3) or when they did there would be problems. Changing the burn rate and using the black professional quality discs made for sound systems has done wonders. Heat and time don't seem to effect them. 
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Originally Posted by webmaster
One of the things I've done which has made 100% effective discs, every time, is to slow down the burn to 4x. I could never get my system to read the disks (normal or MP3) or when they did there would be problems. Changing the burn rate and using the black professional quality discs made for sound systems has done wonders. Heat and time don't seem to effect them.
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What I'm talking about is burning a CD that works in ALL players, not just yours. That's why I said its 100% effective. Some players simply cannot read disc burned at high burn rates. If you can burn at 16x that's great but I'm offering a solution for people who are having problems. My F150 will read any burn speed. But if I want to be able to interchange the disc with the Ranger and the Freestar I burn at 4x. 100%.
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gotcha.sometimes people have probs with dvd's playing at all or pixelation from bad media or too fast burn speed and i thought thats what you meant with the audio cd's.i've got four different cd players in my vehicles and they all play cd's i've done.