Burned CD's sound terrible on some consumer players

I burned 8 audio cd"s as a gift for my mom and gave them along with a new Philips CD player-rated for cd-r and rw. almost all the songs on each disc were skipping or had a static "blip" every few seconds, a couple of them the player would not recgnize the media at first-then it would but horrible sounding. I tried them in my car-same thing (the car has played cd-r's before).
On my computor they play great, then on my wifes car they played . I used cd's from two different manufacturers ..no difference. Anybody have any ideas???

I have the same, or very similar problem. Though it affects only one of my playback systems. Any iTunes burned music CD seems to play fine on my factory installed car system, on a cheapo CD walkman, even on my relatively higher end Rotel CD player, but whenever I play it on my NAD CD player, the discs sound kind of crappy. Its weird because they sound "scratchy" and it seemingly gets worse as the CD plays. I've burned from different computers, so its not the CD drive. Different brands of discs don't seem to help either. Is it a setting problem that I'm not familiar with? Just dunno...

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    Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
    Channel positions                        : Front: L R
    Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
    Bit depth                                : 16 bits
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