I just burned 3 music cds last night, boy was that fast. I played them in my dvd player through suround sound. They played fine but when I went to put them in a cd\radio player or home stereo, nothing. I can't find the default cd\dvd burner program like in previous windows. I would just click on adaptec choose which type of cd I was going to make ie...music, data, photo and so on. What can I do.

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Windows ME doesn't have built in CD Writing, that was 3rd party software you had on the old Computer. You may have burned the new CD's in a format that most DVD players can play, but not your music player. CD Audio (.cda) tracks is what most CD players will recognize.

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I once had a CD player that had a hard time reading CD-R, and liked only original 
music CDs.

Have you finalized them? I want to ask this question even though you said they played 
in your DVD player.







On Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 4:55 am, Jimbo wrote:

>I just burned 3 music cds last night, boy was that fast. I played them in my dvd 

>player through suround sound. They played fine but when I went to put them in a 
cd\radio 

>player or home stereo, nothing. I can't find the default cd\dvd burner program like 

>in previous windows. I would just click on adaptec choose which type of cd I was 

>going to make ie...music, data, photo and so on. What can I do.  

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"I just burned 3 music CD's last night, boy was that fast. "

You may have directly copied MP3 or WMA files to the disc instead of making a proper audio CD. Virtually all DVD players made in the last five years or so can play MP3 files directly burned on CD, and many can play WMA files directly burned on CD as well; but most "regular" audio CD players (especially home stereo CD players!) will play only audio music CD's, not "MP3" or "WMA" CD's (which technically are data CD-ROM's!)

When you say "Boy, was that fast", well MP3 and WMA files are compressed files that are 1/5th to 1/20th the size of uncompressed WAV/CDA files. An 80 minute Audio CD will be about 800 MB when ripped to the hard drive as WAV files, but as 128 kbps MP3 files it would only be 80 MB!Obviously, 80 MB of content will take much less time to burn to a CD than 700 MB (80 min. Audio CD = 800 MB of WAV files, but will be 700 MB when written as an audio CD).

The best way to ensure that you are making an audio CD on an XP/Vista computer (that does not have third-party disc burning software) is to burn the CD with Windows Media Player. Dragging MP3 or WMA files in the regular XP/Vista disc burning staging area will make direct copies of the MP3/WMA files to the disc, which will create a Data CD, NOT an Audio (music) CD.

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