Check and make sure you are burning as "Audio CD" format. Many older players cannot handle CDs burned in MP3 format regardless of type of disc they were burned to while newer car stereos should play CDs burned as MP3s. Additionally, many players cannot handle CD-RW discs. If you have one of those old players you must use CD-R discs.
If neither of the above is your problem, it may just be that the brand of CD-R disk you are using does not work well with your audio player. This happens sometimes and is quite normal. Try a different brand of type.
Another thing to try is to burn at a slower speed. Try burning a disk at 1x (rather than 2x or 6x or whatever speed your burner drive supports). Very often audio CD's burned at slower speeds will work in audio players while disks burned at higher speeds won't. It's been said that the laser encoding is somehow "clearer" when burning at slower speeds and this helps audio players, which often have a problem with home-burned CD's, to cope with the disks.
If your CD won't play at all, this probably isn't your problem but another tip is to try and record all your audio CD's in "disk at once" mode, meaning the whole disk is burned in one pass without turning off the laser. Audio players like disks burned like this better. If you burn the disk "track at a time" the laser is turned off between each track, and audio players often cannot find any track other than the first one on such disks. Although, if you just start them playing at the first track and leave them, they'll usually play all the way through fine. Feedback received on this FAQ entry: - Thank you!
2017-03-06 11:24:33 - I also clicked on the Nero program to burn a music cd, and "BING!" it was so easy to do, and it plays in my car and on my boom box. No more Windows Media for me. I heard Nero is universal, like you can play DVDs and CDs on anything.
2016-08-25 22:23:31 - If you're trying to burn a music CD & it comes out as a CD-ROM, either click on your windows media player or insert a blank disk. The windows that appear are similar. You then go to the top right corner to the little icon with the tick on it. Scroll down to click to "audio CD".
2016-08-22 06:50:30 - I love you. Been trying to figure this out for over a year since I lost my old car! Probably most frustrating thing I'very ever done. Slowed down the speed and got it! Thanks!
2016-08-10 21:57:35 - I had the same problem with CD-RW discs. CD-R worked fine. Nero 8 Came with my CD Burner years ago, but I never used it. I finally tried using it, and viola, the little SOBs play on anything. :)
2016-07-27 19:36:12 - How do I slow down burn speed
2016-07-24 07:21:03 - Thank you so much! I'd tried everything apart from the speed so chose the slowest rip speed and lo and behold, I can now play the cd on my cd player and in the car! Thank you very much :)
2016-06-24 12:27:02 - Thanks so much for the insight and information you've provided. I went through disc after disc and never realized the problem until now. Thanks so much!
2016-06-22 08:09:02 - Thank you so much for the tips! Burning at a slower speed has solved my problems with my CD-R discs!
2016-05-07 16:54:55 - yahoo! I have struggled with cds that won't play in our older players but do play on the computer. by giving several options on how to make the cd play I now am able to provide audio lessons for our visually impaired clientele. thanks and thank and thanks again.
2016-04-21 18:05:34 - my cd writer writes only at full speed...what can i do?
2016-01-26 19:24:56 - I lowered the speed and it worked! Thanks!
2016-01-09 13:14:34 - Yes ! Finally, the answer. Once I burned it on a slower speed, it worked I can't tell you thank you enough
2016-01-06 00:33:44 - got high and saved the file as a data disc not audio.
2015-11-22 19:06:07 - Brilliant, found they play on Walkman but not on 20 year old CD players!! However, will now try a lower speed and CD-R. Many thanks.
2015-10-18 20:55:54 - Lowered recording speed worked, thank god! Or, rather, my thanks to the writer of this article!
2015-09-19 13:16:28 - really good information. helped out a lot, as I was reminiscing why it wouldn't play!! ;)
2015-09-07 06:12:48 - Brilliant recording at slow speed has worked. Would have saved me the cost of a new machine 50 € if I had looked up the subject earlier. cd-r and low speed.
2015-06-09 09:16:00 - Concise and well presented did checks are suggested and fixed my problem. Many thanks and keep up the good work.
John
2015-06-03 04:29:21 - I did all the above and I still can't play either CD-R or DVD-RW on my Yamaha CD player. Worked fine in windows XP but never got it to work in Wndows 7 media player.
2015-03-13 11:17:31 - Spent hours and hours trying to figure out why the cds would play on pc but not a cd player. Watched many videos on youtube with no help. Finally read this and figured out my burn speed was turned all the way up, turned it all the way down and now works. Thank you, thank you, thank you lol.
2015-01-03 00:12:33 - I had same problem at 16X, but recorded at 8X and it worked on my Sony Dream Machine. Thank you!!!!
2014-12-09 22:29:37 - Thanks, I recorded at the lowest and it played on an older unit.
Thanks for the info
2014-10-20 22:06:26 - Thanks I changed setting to audio and picked up CDR'S
HAD TO DO BOTH BUT LEFT THE SPEED UP, GUESS THE RADIO WASN'T THAT OLD
2014-02-27 02:28:08 - Tried all the above and still wont play! Did before but not anymore!!
HELP!!
2014-02-09 09:29:57 - Problem solved I changed to a cd-r and lowered the speed. very happy bunny.
2014-01-15 05:13:17 - I had this problem, so I tried recording it at 16x instead of the fastest 40x, and it worked! I used the CD-R discs.
2013-11-21 18:16:41
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