burning MP3 blues

[Duncan MacGregor]

You really did not tell us enough to help you very much.

Is your CD player supposed  to play MP3 files?

- MP3 files are compressed audio files. 
An ordinary stand-alone CD player, which does not know about MP3  will not 
play them at all, ever, because it does not know how to decompress them. (So 
you must create standard CD audio files to play them there.)

- Some stand-alone CD/DVD players are picky about filename conventions.
A  CD or DVD player that *is* supposed to be smart enough to handle MP3s
may require that they have 'Joliet extensions' that use windows-style (short) 
filenames. My DVD player requires such 'Joliet Filename extensions'; the 
manual says it only recognizes file from 'Windows' computers.

- CDRW and CDR media is 'darker'.
Older CD players and drives could not read CDR or CD-RW disks at all. CDR and 
especially CD-RW disks are physically darker, and early drives may not 
recognize anything other than bright media. Also, as a CD player or drive 
gets older, it may  have more difficulty with dark media. If this happens, 
the drive is failing , and may soon quit altogether.

Duncan


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