Help with cd

[Guest]

Someone burned some cd's for a friend of mine. However when he puts them into
his cd player in his car it ejects it right away. When I insert the cd into
my computer and browse to it I see all the tracks, example "Track05.cda"
what is cda that doesn't look normal. Can anyone help to get these to play in
a cd player.

 

[R. McCarty]

..Cda's aren't the actual song content, but more like an index or menu
that points to the content. Works like a File Allocation Table of MFT
on an NTFS formatted drive.
Hard to speculate on why it won't play - Was it a direct Disk-to-Disk
copy or something created from source material ?
The RIAA is always working on new Encryption and playback blocks.
Perhaps the disk contains some form of Copyright protection.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Have you tried the disc in another player? Is the disc a CD-R/W or a CD-R?
The majority of audio cd players cannot read CD-R/W discs hence one should
also burn audio discs to CD-R unless your player supports CD-R/W.

 

[Guest]

That was it!! They were on cd r/w's Thanks for the help.