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Thread ID: 135521 2013-11-13 04:52:00 Copying mp3 to cda and playing the audio CD Knownothing (7989) Press F1
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1359645 2013-11-14 22:06:00 Try burning at the lowest speed possible. Try an actual CD-Writer not a DVD\CD-Writer if you have one.

Old CD players (and which are likely well used) will be less likely to accept CD-Rs to begin with, and cheap CD-Rs burnt too fast on cheap burners can cause even more problems.

I've used DSE brand CD-Rs before and they burnt at maximum speed just fine but didn't work on anything afterwards. Same problems with other cheap media. Burn it slow and it's fine.

The old Mitsubishi Blue Azo discs DSE used to sell would burn at maximum speed and work perfectly.
Agent_24 (57)
1359646 2013-11-22 00:16:00 Hi Guys

Here’s what I have found:
Win 7 + Nero 7.9 + Asus DRW 24B 3ST writer + Dick Smith inkjet printable CD-R disks slowest write speed 16xs.
Don’t work in older CD players particularly ones that are in vehicles.

Win XP + Nero 7.9 + Sony DVD RW DRU 830A writer + Dick Smith 52xs CD-R disks slowest write speed 8xs.
Do work in older CD players particularly ones that are in vehicles.

Win XP + Nero 7.9 + Sony DVD RW DRU 830A writer + Dick Smith inkjet printable CD-R disks slowest write speed 8xs.
Don’t work in older CD players particularly ones that are in vehicles.

Win 7 + Nero 7.9 + Asus DRW 24B 3ST writer + Dick Smith 52xs CD-R disks slowest write speed 16xs.
Don’t work in older CD players particularly ones that are in vehicles.

Notes: All CDs were written at the slowest speed allowed and what was possible.
Sony 830A DVD/CD writer is older than the Asus DVD/CD writer.
Dick Smith CD-R 52xs non printable disks are no longer available at my local store.

Please note that in post #7 I said that the disk was written at 12xs, I was wrong, it was 16xs.

Thank you all for your advice.
Until the next time... Compute on!!
Knownothing (7989)
1359647 2013-11-22 02:01:00 I note you used Nero every time, might be worth trying a different program. Even Windows media player can burn Audio CD's straight from an MP3 playlist if you have nothing else. Also buy name brand Disks, preferably Verbatim, Mitsubishi, or Taiyo Yuden. They are still cheap enough and really cheap disks are not a good investment. for example I burnt a lot of backups to Princo DVDs a few years back, everything worked fine, disks all tested ok. A year or so later I went to retrieve some data and about a quarter of them are no longer readable - been stored untouched and out of the sun.

I don't use disks for backup any more, and in the car I use a mitsubishi CDRW or a USB flash drive both of which work fine on my head unit.
dugimodo (138)
1359648 2013-11-22 02:05:00 cdburnerxp will probably do a better job than Nero Speedy Gonzales (78)
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