I can't download to a CD

Freaky911 · #1 (**permalink**) August 7th, 2005

I was able to download to a CD by saving songs to computer then to CD but when I try to play the CD it's as if the music is not on it. Can someone Please tell me what I am doing wrong.

CyberStalker · #2 (**permalink**) August 8th, 2005

What program did you use to burn the songs onto the CD(ie. Sonic RecordNow!, etc.) and what type of CD did you use CD-R or CD-RW?

ALimewireUser · #3 (**permalink**) August 8th, 2005

Did you write them onthe CD as MP3s, or have your writing software make a music cd? A disk with MP3s written as data will not play in an most audio CD players.

CyberStalker · #4 (**permalink**) August 9th, 2005

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Originally posted by ALimewireUser
Did you write them onthe CD as MP3s, or have your writing software make a music cd? A disk with MP3s written as data will not play in an most audio CD players.

If you are saying that if a MP3 is burned onto a disk that it won't work in most CD players then perhaps your CD player is old and cannot read a CD-R or CD-RW. I have burnt many MP3's onto CD-R's and all of them work fine.

ALimewireUser · #5 (**permalink**) August 9th, 2005

No, what I am saying is that if you burn them in MP3 format, not all CD players will read them. I'm not talking about CD-R or CD-RW, I'm saying that most CD players will not play MP3s as such, they need to be converted.

When you burn an audio disk, your burning software converts the MP3s to something similar to .wav and writes it to disk. This is also why an audio disk will only hold 80 minutes of music, the files that get written to an audio disk are of a specific size/second and only 80 minutes will fit on one disk, depending on the type of disk you are using.

Having said all that, many new CD players DO play MP3 disks. Those are great, because you can fit 12 hours of music or more onto one disk. If that is the type of player Freaky911 has, then he has a different issue. The file format, however, may be the simple answer to his question.

CyberStalker · #6 (**permalink**) August 9th, 2005

If I sounded rude in my last post then I appologize. I certainly didn't mean to sound that way. I just wasn't sure what you were referring to.

As for some CD players not being able to read a burnt disk I learned that the hard way. I had burnt songs onto a CD-RW only to erase everything on the disk. Both my PS2 and my Sony Discman could not read it. Fortunately I had some CD-R's at hand.

ALimewireUser · #7 (**permalink**) August 11th, 2005

You are correct, I ran across the CD-RW thing myself the hard way, many moons ago.

I guess we need some input from Freaky911 to see what his problem actually is.

No rudeness taken, or meant