Copying music to CD - problems playing back - Help!!

[Margaret Hargreaves]

Hi

I recently copied some music files to CD so that I can
play these tracks in my car. As usual in XP nothing is
straightforward and I couldn't find how to get the silly
PC to allow me to copy them as an easy MP3 file.
Instead, this wizard appeard and copied them through
Windows Media Player doing some sort of conversion on the
way (as you can tell I'm not a computer type really).

Anyway, I played the CD to be sure it would be OK. It
played back beautifully on the CD drive of my PC but that
wasn't unexpected. I put the CD's in my hi-fi system in
the lounge and they were good.

However, I put the CD's in my portable CD player that I
use in the car and it simply told me there was no disc.
The portable CD player uses ASP and also MP3. The files
were originally MP3 but I don't know what Media Player
converted them to. Whatever it was, my tower system can
read it but the portable player can't.

Can anyone help and tell me how I can write these CDs so
that the portable player can play them.

Thanks
Regards
Margaret

 

[Guest]

When you used the WMP to create a CD it probably put the songs/musi
in WMA format which many players will not play except your PC. Yo
can convert them back to MP3 with one of the below free converters
You will not be able to convert them on the CD, only on your harddrive
CDex :: Hom
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net
Or -
MediaMonkey Free MP3 Jukebox Player, Music Library Organizer (3.8mb
http://www.mediamonkey.com/

 

[Margaret Hargreaves]

Hi Byte

The tracks on the PC are fine and at the end of the
process they remain in MP3 format on the PC. It's only
the new CD in the portable player that's a problem.

Do you have any idea how I can copy them across so they
remain in MP3 format on the CD and bypass the WMP
conversion?

Everything I've tried has invoked the "wizard" which
automatically pushes the files through WMP before they
are written to the CD.

Thanks
Margaret

 

[Guest]

You must finalize the CD in the PC so the music will play on other media
If you did not finalize then the CD will not play anywheres
One more item, some CDs will not play in certain player
due to formatting. Cheap Wal-Mart or K-Mart CDs are th
main problem. Below is an excellent program for converting, tagging, etc
it is free to download. Hope you have a good burning program such as Ner
or Roxio Easy CD Creator. Using WMP will create many problems
MediaMonkey Free MP3 Jukebox Player, Music Library Organizer (3.8mb
http://www.mediamonkey.com/

 

[Guest]

----- Margaret Hargreaves wrote: ----

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I recently copied some music files to CD so that I can
play these tracks in my car. As usual in XP nothing is
straightforward and I couldn't find how to get the silly
PC to allow me to copy them as an easy MP3 file.
Instead, this wizard appeard and copied them through
Windows Media Player doing some sort of conversion on the
way (as you can tell I'm not a computer type really)

Anyway, I played the CD to be sure it would be OK. It
played back beautifully on the CD drive of my PC but that
wasn't unexpected. I put the CD's in my hi-fi system in
the lounge and they were good

However, I put the CD's in my portable CD player that I
use in the car and it simply told me there was no disc.
The portable CD player uses ASP and also MP3. The files
were originally MP3 but I don't know what Media Player
converted them to. Whatever it was, my tower system can
read it but the portable player can't

Can anyone help and tell me how I can write these CDs so
that the portable player can play them

Thank
Regard
Margare

 

[Margaret Hargreaves]

Hi Byte

Thanks a billion for pointing me to Nero. I have Nero on
my PC but had found it easier just to pop the CD in the
drive and let XP do the rest it's own way. Obviously, it
used it's own software - WMP - and translated everything
to it's own special format.

I've now re-burnt my CDs using NERO and they're perfect
on all my household and car media.

Thanks so much.

Regards
Margaret

 

[Galley]

Hi Byte

Thanks a billion for pointing me to Nero. I have Nero on
my PC but had found it easier just to pop the CD in the
drive and let XP do the rest it's own way. Obviously, it
used it's own software - WMP - and translated everything
to it's own special format.

I've now re-burnt my CDs using NERO and they're perfect
on all my household and car media.

Thanks so much.

Regards
Margaret

That's good to hear. "Real" software always works best.