Burned cd's won't play in car or home, using sony cd-r or memorex cd-r 52x

The cd's i burn with itunes on my G5 10.5.8, and my macbook 10.6.8 will not play on my home stero or in my car.
I have tried two types of CD's. Does anyone know what the problem is? the disks burned on my much older laptop were fine.
Thanks, Bonnie

Hi, That's what I tried at first and the burning part wasn't there. However I figured it out.
The very first window that shows up after putting the CD in is a drop down window that I didn't know about.
So... choose "open in itunes"-then make a playlist, and burn! It worked in both my player and the car!!!!
I've used a hugh stack of CD's trying different things... but at last I think I got it. It looks different on
my newer computers.
Thanks so much for answering my questions.
Bonnie

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