Copying music to CDs

[Guest]

I recently copied a music CD to a blank CD (labelled CD-
RXG Audio). It plays perfectly on the PC - but will not
play on anybody's cd player ... what's wrong?

 

[Tom]

I recently copied a music CD to a blank CD (labelled CD-
RXG Audio). It plays perfectly on the PC - but will not
play on anybody's cd player ... what's wrong?

Did you use a program like Roxio's, or Nero, etc to make a "music" CD? The cd also has to be recordable, ie, CDR.

 

[Guest]

Hi - thanks for getting back to me. I used 'Real One'
player

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Did you use a program like Roxio's, or Nero, etc to make

a "music" CD? The cd also has to be recordable, ie, CDR.

 

[Tom]

Hi - thanks for getting back to me. I used 'Real One'
player

OK, did you simply use the "copy" feature, or make a "music/audio" CD. You have to make it the latrter for it to play on a standard CD player.

 

[M Lew [MSFT]]

Not all music players can read CDRs. Even some which can may still not be
able to read CDR-Ws. Additionally, depending on how you copied the files,
you have have ripped the files and copied the music into a different format
which a CD player cannot read. For example (and this is only one example of
how the problem can occur). Windows Media player will copy music files from
a CD, but it will convert it first into a .wav format, then into a .wma
format when it is downloaded onto the hard drive. Then when the user copies
the files to a CDR or CDR-W, Media player converts the files back to the
original format before copying it to the CDR or CDR-W. If a user decides to
copy some old music files which are currently on his hard drive which were
previously created through Media Player, they can't just copy the files
straight onto a CDR or CDR-W and expect any CD player to be able to read the
..wma files.


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[Guest]

You're right - I just did 'copy CD' - can i re-use the
same CD or is that it bu**ered?

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OK, did you simply use the "copy" feature, or make

a "music/audio" CD. You have to make it the latrter for
it to play on a standard CD player.

 

[Guest]

Thanks - I might have known it wasn't going to be that
simple!

 

[Malvern]

It is if it's a CD-R. Only ones with the CD-RW designation are able to be
overwritten. But, as already mentioned, RW-s won't play on anything but a
computer.

Malv

 

[Tom]

Not all music players can read CDRs. Even some which can may still not be
able to read CDR-Ws. Additionally, depending on how you copied the files,
you have have ripped the files and copied the music into a different format
which a CD player cannot read. For example (and this is only one example of
how the problem can occur). Windows Media player will copy music files from
a CD, but it will convert it first into a .wav format, then into a ..wma
format when it is downloaded onto the hard drive. Then when the user copies
the files to a CDR or CDR-W, Media player converts the files back to the
original format before copying it to the CDR or CDR-W. If a user decides to
copy some old music files which are currently on his hard drive which were
previously created through Media Player, they can't just copy the files
straight onto a CDR or CDR-W and expect any CD player to be able to read the
.wma files.

While you are partially correct, one can convert wma, mp3, and wav into an audio file to be played on "any" Cd player, and WMP will do that; I am unsure about Real Player though. The software converts the files into real time play, instead of a compressed format that any data storage device can use (such as a PC). Hence when you look at a CDR, it will have a time limit on it (ie 70-80 mins.of play time), as it converts the music into real time, which happens to be both WAV, and Audio file format. Did you ever notice how big wav files are? In data usage, you may be able to save up to 100 MP3s on a data stored CD, but maybe (at most) 20 (relatively small) songs on a audio (music) CD, that is because the bitrate is drastically decompressed when converting to an audio format. (1411 bits/second avg on a music CD, to 320 for highest end bitrates on a data [MP3] CD).

 

[Tom]

It is if it's a CD-R. Only ones with the CD-RW designation are able to be
overwritten. But, as already mentioned, RW-s won't play on anything but a
computer.

Not true, there are now CD players, and other devices that will play MP3s, and the like, especially DVD players using RWs.