Windows Media Player CDs don't play in my car?

I had this problem with my Nissan Titan. I inquired at my favorite computer shop and was told to burn the CD at the lowest speed possible on my burner. I tried it, now my CD plays. I think it has something to do with the quality of the burn at the slower speed.

Great point, R.W. Modern CD burning software has "overrun protection" and automatically prevent this from happening, but the built-in burning software in XP might just blindly stream data to the CD device as fast as you specify, without checking to see if it's inundating the device and consequently producing burn errors. I always burn at slower speeds than my software recommends, actually, just for good luck. :-)

I have trouble using burned CD in a GM truck only if I put a paper lable on them. OK if no label.

An excellent point, Ray. While it may be visibly cool to have printed labels on your burned CDs, you'll notice that commercial CDs have the image screened onto the plastic, so that there's no issue with the paper curling and the disk not spinning properly or, worse, getting stuck in your player.

You mention "buffer overrun", but burning at a slower speed can also prevent "buffer underrun", probably more common with very high-speed burners.

In essence, the drive can process the data in the buffer faster than the burning software can supply it, so the buffer becomes completely empty and the drive just writes garbage data. The result is a CD that won't play on any player.

Setting the drive's burn speed to a lower rate will ensure that the software can keep up with the hardware.

--Bob.

Ah, thanks for that clarification, Bob. Seems like a pretty poor interface when you have to get the speed "just so" for it to not produce garbage, I must say!

some cds dont work on my stereo is it because the steroe is old?

That's quite possible, Bob. Some CD players are very picky about computer-burned CDs. Make sure you're making Audio CD format disks when you burn too!

Thanks for giving that great answer on playing mp3's on portable cd players. I want to buy a religious audio disk that's in mp3 format and was wondering if it will play on my Sony portable radio. Take Care. hurel

P.S: I thought maybe that math was a playful trick question and was wondering if you wanted the answer in digital,hexidecimal or Octal. :)

i have a 94 pontiac grand prix and not all burned cds work in the factory cd player. i have well over 150 burned cds and only 2 work in the cd player. however, factory cds work fine. ive tried different brands of cds and cleaning the laser reader. if you have any helpful tips i would love a comment! Thanks: adawg!!

I am using WMP9 with Nero Fast Burning Plug-In to make audio CD's. Of the 4 CDs I made, 3 are perfect, but one plays 10 of 18 songs in the car, then starts stuttering on the 10th track, and ultimately stops, not playing at all during the 10th track through the 18th track. I tried using different CD's (3) and they all turned out the same. Playing on the computer (Windows XP Home) has all the tracks there and plays with no problem. I have even tried replacing the track with a different song where the problem begins, but each time the same thing happens. They are all MP3 files with no copy protection. Also, I have tried different car CD players....all results the same. Any suggestions?

Hi Dave
I have a problem with Media Player 11 as I try to burn my music to a cd it comes up in the right hand corner with a arrow saying connect to burner and restart Player. It seems to me it does not see my cd player or my DVD player when I do but in a movie it plays very choppy is there something missing in the program itself. Hope you can help me out on this.
Thanks
Jules

I use media player 11. I bought music from Walmart in WMA format. How can I convert it to mp3 format to use on my Sony telephone/mp3 player? Thank you.

I use media player 11. I bought music from Walmart in WMA format. How can I convert it to mp3 format to use on my Sony telephone/mp3 player? Thank you.

i want know how to copy to cd in windows media player 11

Dear Sir I am talking about my CD Audio player mucic system and not the cd player of my computor. Can my audio cd player be converted into mp3 player

I'm totally clueless about this... I found a website where the music files are mp3. How do i convert mp3 to a cd? Can I do it with the windows media player? what's the best software to use...especially if it's free? Thanks.

Hello,
I am having problems with my burning my car stereo is capible of playing mp3s. I am using windows media player and they are in mp3 format but they still will not play in my stereo do you know why that might be??

I have windows XP & a dell computer. can't get windows media center to create my own cds. also tried windows media player & roxio. i used to be able to do it w/windows 98 just drag & drop. i need something simple if there is such a thing. if nothing else pls recommend some software that i can use to create my personal cds with selected music from my cds. also can i delete the music that came with the program in categories of my album, artists, genre etc.? thanks. for a great website i just happen to stumble upon.

I am having audio problems with Windows Media Player 11. The sound is very "staticky" or has a sound of the speakers being over driven. My OS is Win ProXP SP2, my sound card is Creative SB Live (don't know release). I don't have this problem with any of the other playback devices, such as QuickTime, Creative Player, Music Match. Thanks.

My windows media player doesn't play anything it syas "Opening nedia" and then says "ready" but nothing happens this usually happens when I try to play videos from the internet. Does it make a diference whether you are on a wirkless network or not?b Also Windows Media Center wo'nt paly videos. Do you know what's wrong? It did work for a while but not now. Help would be much appreciated. No really REALLY it would be appreciated. THANK YOU.

my windows media player (ver 11) cant burn anything at all. When I put in a cd-r it still says insert a blank CD. when i had the previos ver i could burn with that but with this media player i cant burn at all. Does any1 no what is wrong with it

Dave

Just a quick note to say thanks for your help, my CD's now play in the car. It was a simple thing I did wrong but being a computer thickie, your advice was a real help.

Thanks again

Kind regards

Ian

I had a CD that I used for five years in my car. Bought a Vista equipped computer. Put CD into it just to see if it wud play and then when I tried to play it in car again, it kept ejecting.

dave, in windows media player (10) i try to burn an audio CD for my mom but it stops when i click start burn and says "inspecting" next to the first song and on the other side goes back to: No files on the CD. Please answer i need CD for tomorrow!

srry i got it it was bcause i had 2 songs in the list that werent on my computer bcause of an entirely different problem i havent fixed yet (All 5 star songs disapear from my hard drive?) ne ways thank you anyways peace :¶

no, dave, its Vista. I've been burning CDs for years using itunes on XP and playing them in my car. the second i got Vista, the same stack of CDs will no longer play.

apparently, this is a widespread problem.

Hello Dave,
I have a problem with my stereo playing my MP3 discs. It's a 6 month old Kenwood. My success rate is roughly half. If I burn a disc with 150 files, my stereo 'sees' only 80. This happens in a friends stereo as well. I've tried different burning programs and different pc's. All files play fine on the pc. Any ideas??! I'm going crazy!

Thanks, Andy

OK, I am at my wit's end. I have tried reconverting all 156 songs thru an mp3 converter to get them all in the same converter definition. Still my Kenwood only sees 80. Have tried the slowest burn setting, different brands of CD's, and different computers and burner programs. Tried putting files in a folder, and not putting them in a folder. Tried deleting all extraneous album art files. ALL with the same result. Only 1/2 to 2/3rds success. Can some of these MP3's be locked??!! I can't identify if they are.

Frustrated....

Andy

Hi

I have a peculiar problem in my XP machine. Mp3 files written thru my Samsung DVD writer (model 202j) are

not playable in other DVD or audio players. The tracks are jumping and disturbed. These tracks play ok

even when you play on the PC from the same CD on which they are written. But not outside the PC. It does not play even in any other PC.

What could be the issue? Recently I formatted my C drive and reinstalled the XP afresh and applied all

the patches. Still the problem persists.

Would appreciate if some one help me out.

I have checked, there is no issue with the DVD writer.

Thanks.

Hi, I also cannot play my home made CDs in my car. I've done all of the above tweaking. I've made an MP3 and a WMA copies at slow speed with Ativa brand cd and now Maxell. Both sound great in my home cd player and DVD player but don't work in the car. My car CD is a Delco digital/EQ and has a gorgous sound with factory cds. I cleaned the lens with a special cd cleaner several time also.
The car manual (Buick Riviera 1992) doesn't give any info on what kind of cd it can read. It does mention that it needs a 4 second gap in between tracks. Is this significant?

Please help
Lynda

I have a problem with WMP (V11)in burning CDs of video clips - I have a Dell laptop with Windows XP and I get the following message - 'it is not possible to burn this list of files because all of the files have errors or are missing burn rights. To learn more about the problem click the icon next to each file in the burn list' I've tried to find out more but no icon exists next to the file. I've checked in the file properties and it says the file is not protected. Please can you help. David

Hi Dave,
My car is 1997 toyota avalon having dollby digital sterio. But when I use shop bought CD it is working fine. When I burnt CD using Roxio or vista its not playing. I burnt CDs 1. mp3 to AudioCD 2. WAV to Audio CD 3. mp3 to Audio CD with 4x speed. but one good news is that when I burnt using 4x speed the tracks are moving but songs are not playing. Can you sugges...
I created nearly 11 CD-R for this.

something really simple. I couldnt play cds that I burnt on win media player. lokked at this page and you gave me the answer, i was burning data cds not audio cds!! thank you for your help.

just converted wma to wav after 2 hours trying,find the file, left click,`save target as`send to desktop and use mp3 to wav convertor

BINGO IT WORKS

i am burning audio cd using nero. when i play on cd player it doesn't start auto playing. so many times even selecting and playing also not responding. I have dvd player

dave i need your help. i've burnt cd R's on fast burn and slow burn using windows media player on an XP system. these cd's still won't play in my truck. i've also used nero which i don't like and was unable to get it to play. how do i fix this?

I would like your help Dave, if you could. All I want to do is burn a Cd on Windows Media Player. I've done it several times before. Now, all of a sudden, it tells me I have to connect a burner and restart the player. My cd burner is internal. My cd drive works, it can plays cds, and on the properties, there is a recording tab and i've enabled cd recording. So what is going on?

my whole audio library is in mp3, I have a converter, put them back into .wav so that i could play them in my mazda, I burned them at 8x, (lowest setting on my mac) but when i go to play them, the cd player reads it all as one track and no audio plays. Is my computer burning as data? how do you tell? and how would you change it back to audio on a mac?
Note: I'm using burn folders

I was having problems playing a data CD with recorded audio in my CD Player, I tried mp3, wma and wav, nothing worked. Then I saw the free copy of Roxio had a "Make a CD for playing in your CD player" conversion - voila! 5 minutes later I had 3 CDs that worked with no problem. The blank CDs were data CDRs, not audio CDs. They sound great. I did have a weird problem in my car CD player a few years ago. The 'recorded' CDs would get hot and stop playing after a while. Store bought prerecorded CDs would play forever, but the ones I recorded from mp3s would play 30 minutes or so and then get 'hot' or warm and stop playing. No labels, just bare CDs. Had to alternate between store bought and downloaded CDs on long road trips...

Ok, I feel your pain. I have a few mp3 cd players. An older sony(that works), a cheapo Car player, & 2 Durabrand players. Now the Durabrand and the car player are awful(iow cheap). They both support mp3's & Wma's, BUT theyre a pain to use. Say you burned your entire Kenny G/New Kids collection to one disc. One album/song may play while there others are skipped as if non-existent. I think the cause is the variable bit rates of each mp3. One album could be 320K & the Other 128k. I guess it all depends on what your player supports &/or if you can mix and match on one disc. Anyway... My two cents. Peace out~ Jon

sir i have wasted x numbr of cds.... i use nero 6 to burn them... i ve tried other softwares too... in all formats... mine is a sony expload car stereo..... plz suggest..!

I have a general question about mp3's and mp3 compatible players. Bare with me, as I try to elaborate. When a cd player claims that it plays mp3's (especially most new 2009 car stereos), does it mean that it only plays mp3 tracks burned in standard cd format on a cd-r, or does it mean that it can read mp3 files on a playable and/or storage disc?

I am having problems playing mp3 files on cd-rs. I have even tried dvd-rws (which could be a problems), but I didn't have problems burning them as a playable bulk mp3 file disc. I did more than just store the files, using Vista I used the "Mastered" option when burning the files to cater to newer music players and not to just make a file storage disc. Yet I still am getting an error when I try playing it in my mp3 playable Sony Xplod head unit. It may be the dvd-rws. It may be the brand. But really I just want to know what it truly means when a stereo says it plays mp3s...whether be it file, track or both. 10 to 25 tracks as opposed to 80+ mp3 files.

Do most or some stereos have trouble reading large amounts of files on cd-r, cd-rw, dvd-r, dvd-rw?..or do only cd-rs work in mp3 readable stereos? Also, what disc brands do you recommend?
Memorex?

Thanks, I hope you can help. =)

I created an audio CD in Windows 7 but it wouldn't play in my old car stereo. My car player can only play audio CD's (burnt from wav files) so I couldn't use mp3 or wma files. I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work since it was an audio cd made from wavs. I'm not sure why but somehow the Win7 media player must include some kind of directory information when it burns the audio cd. After I moved my audio files to 1 directory (rather than grabbing from several different directories), I burnt the CD. That CD worked in my car.

Wow thanks for making it so simple to trouble shoot burning problems. I was set up with data cd and with one simple click bam boom baby im back in the cd biz thanks again.

Poohbear

It is truly a mystery as to why some burnt mp3 tracks play in my auto mp3 player and others don't. Yes they all play when burnt as AAC encoded audio discs, but that defeats the purpose of using the mp3's compressed format and being able to burn more than say 10 tracks on a 700MB disc.

I have recently uploaded all of my CD collection onto Windows Media Player on my Vista system. I tried to create a playlist of favourites to burn on to blank CD. The blank CD I have used is a Maxell CD-R 80 SQ. The CD plays back normally on the Windows Media Player on the computer but will not play back on any of the CD systems I have in my house or in my car. I travel over 120000 km per year for work and my own home produced compilation cds are vital for my sanity. Any Ideas ?

just before Christmas (2009), I made a Christmas cd, and had no trouble playing it in my cd player. Now (only 2 weeks later), I make cds, and they play on my computer, but NONE of the 42 copies I made (I have copyright permission, btw) of the new cd will play on anything BUT my computer. I have even tried individual copies, rather than a batch. Several different CD brands (including the one that worked 2 weeks ago), etc. I updated the drive firmware, to see if that was the problem. Nope.

So WHY ON EARTH, did something that worked 2 weeks ago, suddenly change???? No, I did not change any settings, or install any software, hardware, or firmware in between the "working" cd and the "non-working" cds.

I have burned Cd's using window media player for years. All of a sudden my Cd's that I burn will not play, only on my pc. Did something happen with my setting because I have did nothing different besides add a virus protection? When I put the burned Cd in my car it start track 1 for about 5 seconds but no audio then stops. I need help.

Thanks a lot. It helped.

if i were to us a DVD-RW instead of a CD-R and just leave my window media player settings the same is there a chance that the disk could work in most cd players

I have burned Cd's using window media player in highmat format(Win XP). All of a sudden my Cd's that I burn will not play, only on my pc. Did something happen with my setting? When I put the burned Cd in my car than only 6 songs play about an 89 songs.and also my sony hi-fi system can`t read ... I need help.

For those who cannot play a burnt CD in their car stereo, there is a chance that it could actually be an issue with your CD player being too cold. Most CD players, computer CD-drives included, have to spin the disk until it's above a certain temperature. Sometimes, when a car is cold enough, and both the player and CD are cold, the CD player will not be able to warm the disk, and will tell you to eject the CD. This is because when you burnt the CD, the disk was already room temperature, and when the burner spun the disk, it's temperature rose immensely, causing the disk to expand on a molecular level. When the disk is cold again, it contracts and cannot be played until it reaches a certain temperature.

This has happened to me many times before, and I managed to solve this problem by freezing my CDs before I burn them. I keep them in a DRY freezer at -10 degrees Fahrenheit, and I use a High Quality CD burner that will read and burn the disk at any temperature.

By burning the disk at a lower temperature, the information is stored to the CD at a denser consistency than it would be if warmer, causing the information to be more accessible at lower temperatures.

Also, this process actually gives me a higher quality sound because it relaxes the lattice structure of a material that has been previously distorted by heat or pressure, both of which are present during CD injection molding.

So before you go out and start freezing your CDs, look it up on google and take take some time to look at some of the articles that explain why this process doesn't ruin your disks.

Also, make sure to keep your CDs dry by placing them in a dry freezer or by placing them in an airtight bag.

Hi Dave

Can you help please. I have just bought a new car that can play CD and MP3 files. I wanted to convert all my cds to mp3 format and burn them onto a cd. They are now in MP3 format but i can only fill just over 1 album on the cd, even though the cd has 700mb and i have a total of 1.37Gb, so i was hoping to fit all the albums on 2 cds as i thought the point of mp3 was that you can fit a lot more on 1 cd. Could you let me know what i am doing wrong please?

I was having a problem with my burned cd's not playing in my factory GM stereo, but if I burn at the "slow" speed setting with Windows Media Player, they seem to work ok.

I am having a problem with my Car CD player .. no matter how i try to burn the CD it always ends the same...i tried lower speeds of burning, Different CD-RW Brands, Different burners,...it keeps telling me that there is an error then automatically eject the CD... although some times it reads the CD but i cant seek during the song or swich from one to another....any suggestions???

Hi

I Want Know when i see photo windows media player with play song

plz sir plz answer on my mail adress

gaurav.sharma@tilinfotech.com

I have been having a similar problem with Vista burned files and have just discovered that all I need is to resert my burn option to "Audio CD" from "Data CD or DVD" under the burn tab on Windows Media Player...

I am running Windows XP and WMP11. Everything works fine in the player except photos that were transfered via other programs or digital camera into the library. Pics look fine on library page but when I select them to play they are distorted and appear only as colorfull lines. Some of the photos do play normal but most do not. It seems to have something to do with from were they originated. Dscf or img tags will not play. Help

When I insert a CDRW (that I know to be blank) into the CD drive, the oblong
box above the "Burn" list (above where it it says "Insert a blank CD") has
started to fill out immediately in red, and display message "Filled". This is
preventing me from burning any CDs. Anyone know what's happening, please?
Any help appreciated.

Dear Sir,
My problem is that i got a sony 2007 model hi-fi dhc-az33d in that i can play mp3-winmap music cd's brought from outside,but i download mp3 files from net i can't play on the sony system at same time if i use to write in audio mode(winmpa) through nuro express via windows media player version 10 it works,but mp3 won't,pl.help me.

jairaj

This subject has plagued me for years & then out of the blue I found a practical answer buried on some web site. The older cd disks only held 650MB I believe. Regardless they were smaller storage wise, but that was the standard on which older cd players were designed to play back these cds. I used to get so peaved when I would burn something on a 700MB & it would play just fine in my car or home stereo(I like to keep up on tech toys)& I figured these are awesome cds so you burn a few for a buddy & they don't work.I've been able to pull off burning techniques with the 700MBs on certain friends older players but not flawlessly or effortlessly by far. You can actually mess an older player up by putting the new standard disks in certain older players.A lot of the tech stuff is from what I read but makes a lot of sense.It's not so much how you end the disk within reason,overburning isn't the wisest technique,but it's where the recording actually starts on the cd. If you're burning for newer cd players,they are designed to read the 700MB standard. However, no matter what, slower is better as most people agree when it comes to the actual recording of the disk. I've found for someone with an older player that using the cheapie memorex or maxell brands works the best,at least from what I've experienced.And-burn-slow as possible.Probably not making the 1st song on the cd the choice opening tune, would be your best bet. In many cases if the disk does not get an initial read it becomes a disk read error. Most people know that lasers start from the inside & read outward & from what I've read it's that extra 50MB that makes a big difference on the initial startup of the disk depending on the age of the player. I totally agree.Once I began using this mentality I realized that it was not me in many or even most cases on the way way I burned the disk or the software I was using,it was the lack of most if not all of these companies to really inform the public of the compatibility issues with 650MB as opposed to 700MB disks. In hindsight I probably didn't make as many coasters as I once thought. Hit or miss, sometimes the newer disks will play in older players & I've found through trial & error when you 1st insert the cd in an older player, keep pressing the 'select next track' button to get to track 2.I've found in most cases it works even though it sucks doing it that way but it is a workaround.Hey whatever works.It really would have been nice to know how incompatible these identical looking disks really werein a lot of cases. I know for a fact that most people thought cool I can fit 'x' amount of more music on the cd & they are right to think so, because you can. But does your player support it? Perhaps now a person just can't afford a new player, but you can bet that trying to find the standard media that was intended for these older players is actually harder to find than a disclaimer stating that those players are meant to be used to play the older 650MB format. These companies pray that after you make enough mistakes/coasters @ your expense, profitable to them without your knowledge of even knowing why sometimes they work or sometimes they don't. Leaving you assuming all along it's just got to be something you're doing wrong, not even considering that maybe their lack of providing the consumer proper notice that the required medium is being fazed out if available at all. Assuming then that perhaps out of frustration you'll just buy a new player eventually.And in all rationality of common sense from a marketing point of view, wouldn't it have been much fairer to the consumer to have been made more aware in black & white of the compatibility issues in the identical looking 650MB cd vs the 700MB cd? I know once I realized the laser alignment thing as in it's starting position to read a disk I've had much more success for friends w/ older units. So if you give it a whirl & it doesn't work Don't set a frosty mug on it just yet-Pop it in a Blu-Ray player You just might be amazed...Anyway sorry for the length of this article but it is years of pent up frustration.And Im sure Im speaking on many people's behalf. I began to wonder if I wasn't quite getting a grip on proper burning techniques & lack of what really was a good burning capeable/consistant cd brand.No problems now even though my players can kick out incredible FLAC audio I find that I finally mastered so many untold techniques just in time for the medium to pass the way of the 8Track.I use several 8 gig flash drives loaded with FLAC files in my car stereo,but I do help friends who still use cds as their sole music player.So Dave, out of curiosity Im sure there are other methods of getting the newer disks to play in older units as I cannot find the older 650MB disks what so ever. How would you approach this if buying a new car stereo was out of the question & you were in need of transferring your home media to the new standard of cd for playability on an older car cd player?

thanks this helped me

When I copy any of my music CD's on my computer for use on my other CD players they will not play.

Can you advise the procedure I should follow.

Kind regards

Ian

Had problems getting mp3 to play in my 2011 Nissan Tekna, after googling it I used Ashampoo selecting the expert settings to create data cd, changed ISO9660 level one to No ISO9660, Joliet from No Joliet to Joliet, leave UDF alone.
Select next and continue as normal.
Works perfectly!