I have donloaded several songs, what are the steps to burn these songs on to a blank CD?

Hopefully some of the tips here can help: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/tips-t...ps-tricks.html

Basically, make sure you choose Audio CD setting to burn in your burner program, do not choose mp3 disk or data disk. Use a CD-R to burn to, not a CD-RW. Burn at the slowest speed your CD-R is capable of. The slower the speed, the more reliable the burn result will be & more chance of it being compatible with normal home stereo CD Players new & old. Older CD Players including car cd players prefer the slower speed disks (example: 1-16 speed) & may struggle to play the faster type CD-R's that can burn up to 50 speed.

Choose a good brand CD-R to burn to. Do not find the cheapest, do not choose those made in China or Taiwan. Some of those are so poorly made that even if the burn process succeeds, and even if it can play .. probably after 6 months the CD-R will deteriorate in quality were it struggles to play, has noise & distortion in background, etc. Similar to using very cheap Audio cassette tapes only designed for speech, not music. Good brand CD-R's should last you many many years! (20+)

I set the speed to low setting and when I put the cd in my car stereo, it still says error. I am using a HP laptop with vista. I am using Sony CD-R blank disc. The disc burns fine then finalizes and ejects. I must be missing something here. Should I use a different disc? If so what brand do you suggest? I was using windows media player to burn and then I downloaded express burn, both with the same results. Very frustrated, I appreciate your feedback.

Have you checked that each of the songs plays ok on your computer? One of them might be faulty/corrupt which is mucking up the conversion process.

Are they all mp3, or are they another type or a combination of types such as wma, m4a/mp4, real, etc.?

Whilst most burners should be able to handle it, one of the songs might be 48 KHz instead of 44.1 KHz, or mono/joint stereo instead of stereo. If that were the case & your burner was struggling with it, then convert it to WAV & then to 44.1 KHz & stereo & re-add it back to the burn list.

In fact, converting all to WAV will not do them any damage & make it easier for your burner to burn them, instead of converting from mp3 in the process of burning, depending on whether your burner converts during burning or before the burn begins. Just my thoughts.

How do I convert to WAV??

I presume you are using WMP. I don't use it so wouldn't have a clue. There is a program called Audacity listed half way down this page you could use http://www.gnutellaforums.com/tips-t...tml#post291443

Another alternative is this little burning utility. Will burn Lossless straight to disc. I use it a lot and have Never made any coasters from this burner.

Sh!t can WMP. Try Winamp w/Burrrn. Nice combo

burrrn.net - The home of Burrrn and Mr QuestionMan Burrrn

I also use Sony CD-R's on occasion and after burning a Flac disc with Burrrn, the sound and quality is Fantastic.

It can burn just about anything you throw at it.

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I highly recommend Burrrn as well. Especially since it will give you a detailed status report as well, just in case it's one song mucking up the whole thing.