FOAK: Burning CD for kids disco tomorrow

FOAK that is UKRM, I beseech you.....

Im trying to burn a disc ont puter with no luck whatsoever.

Basically the 7 year old has a mini disco tomorrow afternoon and i promised
her i would do her a disc to bring in. Of course Ive spent an hour
downloading and burning a few Elvis songs, the Baha men, and the
ghostbusters theme, oh, and a couple of busted songs too.

So, using iTunes, I burnt a disc, brought it to the normal stereo
downstairs, but no luck, just says no disc.
Imported them into Windows media player, burnt them again, but same result.

So FOAK, anyone know if im doing summat wrong or does it not work?
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2 Things:
1) Are you finalising the disc?
2) Does the CD player in which you're testing actually play CDRs? Try
playing the disc on the PC.
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"Catman"said to Donegal Paul wrote:
SNIP

Yes, it must do cos a mate of mine does me cds every so often and they play
fine. Its a CDRW disc im using but i doubt if that makes a difference?
Ive never actually burnt a music disc before as I generally use my ipod for
pretty much all my music needs. Buggered if im sending her with that
though

I just thought i would try it on my hifi thinking, if it'll play on that,
itll play on whatever they use at school.
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Donegal Paul
Lambretta Li186 - crashed and bashed
Vespa T5 Millenium - Wifey's (technically)
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk
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And try 'em in a dvd player as they usually play mp3/wma's too. This may
get you out of the poo.

HTH

 

"Cane" replied to "Donegal Paul"

*heh* not my choices mate
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Donegal Paul
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That can make a difference. If the CD player is a few years old, it may
happily play CDRs but CDRW.

 

Ive just installed Nero on the PC and started going through the process only
for it to say that it does not recommend CDRW s as many stereos wont
recognise them :-( And heres me thinking that CDRWs are handier than CDRs!
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Donegal Paul
Lambretta Li186 - crashed and bashed
Vespa T5 Millenium - Wifey's (technically)
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk
www.a4c.co.uk - What are YOU doing?

 

Can definitely make a difference.

No guaruntee, sadly. Try it on the PC and see if it's detected as an audio
disc. At least then you'll know the software bit is OK
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Its a CDRW disc im using but i doubt if that makes a

Yep it detects ok, so it must be the CDRW :-(
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Donegal Paul
Lambretta Li186 - crashed and bashed
Vespa T5 Millenium - Wifey's (technically)
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk
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Donegal Paul wrote:

Sorry if this is stating the obvious... but you are converting them to
CD-DA audio aren't you? It's possible to burn wma/mp3 as data files or
burn them as an audio CD.

Basically, if you are using Nero then make sure you are burning an
Audio CD and not a CD-ROM, it will do the conversion for you then.

 

I'd reckon so.
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Are you using a CD-R or a CD-RW disk?

<checks rest of thread>

Ah! I thought so.
Use CD-R disks, not CD-RW, if you're planning on playing them on normal CD
players.

 

Bear says...

And with his second post, Bear announces he's back. For good?

 

Dont worry, its always worth pointing out the obvious I spent an hour
earlier today trying to suss why the wireless modem wasnt working right,
then the wife tried using the phone, found no dial tone and noted that the
bleeding plug wasnt in right :-/

Oh, and I was burning them as audio cds
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Donegal Paul
Lambretta Li186 - crashed and bashed
Vespa T5 Millenium - Wifey's (technically)
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk
www.a4c.co.uk - What are YOU doing?

 

I've been in Leeds once. In the first half hour I saw two fights and was
propositioned by a hooker. Class!

 

Shit quality discs/ CD audio player

 

I think it was the fact that the discs are cdrw not cdr and while the hifi
is old, its a great technics system.
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Donegal Paul
Lambretta Li186 - crashed and bashed
Vespa T5 Millenium - Wifey's (technically)
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk
www.a4c.co.uk - What are YOU doing?

 

Pioneer and Panasonic drives will do both as will anything higher (Sony
etc)

JVC, Hitachi, Kenwood, Alba (yuk) and the cheaper makes have some of these
problems

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It does. Most hi-fi's won't read CDRW's (the ones that do usually have
a big sticker on them saying so!)

Indeed.

Phil

 

Donegal Paul secured a place in history by writing:

Almost up there with the phone call I got at work from SO to announce 'the
internet isn't working'. Took me a good hour of talking her through
diagnosis on my desktop to establish the network was OK, then of her
network config, then of the WAP - which appeared to have disappeared in the
electronic ether. At which point I realised that she had taken her laptop
up to the attic and had randomly chosen a plug to remove from a 4-way in
order to plug it in.........