After burning CD, won't play

After burning a CD on my Emac, it will not play on another device. I receive the "ding" letting me know that it burned OK. Am I missing a step after the "ding"? Am I burning incorrectly? Thanks for any help you can give.

awsmith,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Can you provide a little more information? What kind of file(s) did you burn, and on what device are you trying to play the CD? Does the other device recognize the CD and fail to open the files, or is the CD not seen at all?
You may also want to try another blank CD, especially one from a different spindle or package of discs. Blank CDs can degrade over time, especially in less-than-ideal strorage conditions (see the NIST document Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs), and some brands and batches of blank discs are markedly less quality than others (while written in terms of DVD discs, the manufacturer rankings in Blank DVD Media Quality Guide are useful).

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