Music CD Burned from Computer won't play in my Van

I just wasted over 30 minutes burning over 20 songs from my computer onto a 700MB CD, and the blasted thing won't play in the CD player in my van. It plays inside the Computer just fine.

What Gives?

Did you burn it as a music CD, or as an MP3/data disk?

Did you see if the disk works in another CD player that is not a computer?

As a Music CD. It wont play on my Home Stereo CD player either. :flow2:

Put the CD in your computer, look at the songs list, and "right click"
to see the properties. If they are listed as WAV files, then I don't know why they won't play.

Sometimes this happens when the CD is removed before it's "formatted."

They DID burn as MP3 files

BLAST

Now I gotta start all over

30 minutes? Damn, how old is your burner?

Try turning the van on.

It took me that long to pick out the songs from my Library

It depends on the type of CD player you have in your car. Some manufacturers, Sony for example, deliberately make it so burned CDs will not play because they think it would promote piracy while others, mostly second tier brands, go out of their way to advertise that their CD players will work with burned CDs because they think it is a market advantage to them. The bottom line is you're going to have to buy a new car stereo if you want to play burned CDs.

I tried playing it on the stereo in my Front Room and it didnt work either!