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| Thread ID: 94450 | 2008-10-30 02:29:00 | Can't play home made CD on old Stereo | kbcad (1025) | Press F1 |
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| 715885 | 2008-10-30 23:00:00 | You have to use a program, (ie: Nero if you have it), that can convert WMA to cd audio format. Or a program that can load wma files. CDburnerXP (http://cdburnerxp.se/) may do it, its free |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 715886 | 2008-10-30 23:03:00 | Nigel - yes, CDs were closed. Speedy - format was WMA. How do I burn them as CDA? FoxyMX - will try with slower speed Solmeister and Trev - CD player has no problem with commercial CDs. It's just the ones I have burnt myself that it won't play, but, as stated earlier, I can play them on my car stereo and on my wife's portable CD player. I have found a temporary solution. I have connected my wife's CD player via its headphone jack to the Auxiliary on the CD player which allows me to play my home made CDs through my stereo equipment. However, there is some loss in quality doing this. It appears to be a shortcoming with my (old) stereo that needs CDA format, but I can't find out how to do that. Most converters on the 'Net seem to to convert the other way i.e. CDA to MP3 (etc) KB. Correct - Commercial CD's will ALWAYS play in any CD player, not true of CD-R, as I said, writeable CD's were not common place 20 yrs ago. To write a CD in CDA format, just use MS Media Player, it defaults to CDA, however I still doubt that it will play the CD-R |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 715887 | 2008-10-30 23:53:00 | Use any burning program but make sure you choose "Audio CD" instead of "Data CD" when you make it. When the CD capacity is measured in minutes instead of MB, you'll know you're on the right track.. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 715888 | 2008-10-31 00:47:00 | SolMiester - "To write a CD in CDA format, just use MS Media Player, it defaults to CDA, however I still doubt that it will play the CD-R" - You're dead right - it didn't! I give up. Looks like my old,old stereo is not up to the job. Thanks to all who offered advice. Regards, KB. |
kbcad (1025) | ||
| 715889 | 2008-10-31 00:55:00 | If you have RCA inputs to your old stereo, you could just use a Y spliter from your PC sound card output, 1 to your PC speakers, and 1 to your old stereo. Then use something like MS Media Player to play all your music stored on your PC through your amp and stereo speakers. We do it all the time, have any number of play lists............ |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 715890 | 2008-10-31 03:03:00 | .....Correct - Commercial CD's will ALWAYS play in any CD player..... unless its one of those 'copy protected' CD's. I have to make a copy using Nero to get them to play them in my (standalone)CD Player:crying But Philips wont allow them to to use the CD logo, or call them CD's as they dont follow the official format, so technically you're correct:lol: |
sroby (11519) | ||
| 715891 | 2008-11-01 03:54:00 | Why not look into some higher quality CDs? With a little perseverance, Im sure you can do it! 1) Look for high quality CD's. Dont buy the most expensive, but read reviews about high quality media. Kodaks Gold + Silver Ultima is the only CD-R I've seen that will play on *anything*! 2) Try 650MB / 74min CD's. The extra 6 mins can be over the tolerance limit of some drives, particularly older ones. If you have a 650MB CD-R, then your chances will be better. Seriously, try and find somewhere you can buy the Kodak 650MB CD-R's from and see how you go ;) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 715892 | 2008-11-01 04:39:00 | unless its one of those 'copy protected' CD's . I have to make a copy using Nero to get them to play them in my (standalone)CD Player:crying But Philips wont allow them to to use the CD logo, or call them CD's as they dont follow the official format, so technically you're correct:lol: While you can play them, just use Audacity to copy them at the same time . . . it can record anything you can actually hear on the computer . . even YouTube audio tracks, and then use the highest rate you want in Audacity's system settings, then save them to a folder . I call my folder "Rips, Here" and then I can take them at will and burn them via WMP10 . I don't know about WMP11 though . . . I think it tells on you . :thumbs: |
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