Burned CDs only play on computer

I imported a cd,k and burned it to a blank cd, but that one won't play on any cd player, only on the computer! Is this because I foolishly upgraded to itunes 9?

Whoops! Senior moments 5,463 - 5,479. I wasn't even seeing the options to check (i.e., audio, data etc., so apparently it was choosing "data" for me. All very simple. Thanks

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Burned CDs Only Play on Authorized Machine

I have recently bought a new PC and I moved my iTunes library over to the new machine and authorized it to play my purchased tracks. Everything seemed fine, I can sync my iPod and play all the purchased music on both the iPod and within iTunes.
I have successfully purchased more tracks on the new PC, but when I tried to burn them to a CD I found that the CD was not playable in a CD player. The CD is readable in the new PC and if I put the disk in the old PC I can import the tracks to the old system and then on that machine burn a CD that will play in a CD player!
The new PC will burn CD of non-purchased tracks fine and they can be played in my CD player, it looks as if when a CD is burned on the new PC with purchased music it is encrypted in some way.
I stress that both PCs are authorized to play the tracks that I have purchased myself.
Thanks,
BraileTrail

ed2345 wrote:
But as I am sure you realize, your problems of burning "protected" tracks have nothing to do with the .cda files. Personally, I avoid purchasing "protected" tracks; they have no advantages and frequently cause annoying limitations.
Agreed, but if the tracks you want are protected only...
I could buy the CD and rip it, but then I would have a pile of CDs I don't really want. Hmm,so why am I trying to burn them on to CD? Because it's cheaper generally and I don't want the cases and sleeve notes!
I tried some further experiments over the weekend and found that the CD I burn on the new machine are not actually readable on the new machine! If I put them in the old machine they are fine and I can import the tracks!
I am desparate to ditch the old machine, but I can't while in this situation.
Thanks,
BraileTrail

Created project in PE4, burned to DVD - plays on Computer but not on DVD Player.

Created project in PE4, burned to DVD - plays on Computer but not on DVD Player.
Vista Ultimate
Let me know what other info you need.
Thanks for your help.

Yes, the lowest possible Burn speed will be a step in the direction of compatibility.
As for the Quality setting, Robert Johnson has done tests on various versions of PE and has recommend a setting of about 7.8 (IIRC). Unlike Encore, where one has many more choices, PE limits one to a Quality setting of 8. This is about equivilent to the recommend 7MB/s in Encore. Robert found that just below the 8 max. actually yielded slightly better results, than did the full 8, on his tests.
The three things that help to insure the greatest compatibility with set-top players are, and in pretty much this order:
1.) Quality media - Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden or Falcon (US only)
2.) Burn speed (slower is better. It might take a few minutes more, but if it works, you don't have returns or have to do it again.)
3.) Bit-rate around 7MB/sec
Remember - no set-top player HAS to play any Burned DVD. Most do, but some just do not - only replicated, pressed discs. Also, some player are still sensitive to the -R and +R media types. This is less a problem with newer units, however it still could be an issue with many older ones.
Personally, I test a "master" on four different players, plus my computer, before I Burn a batch, or ship out any. One unit is a very high-end Marantz, another is a mid-level Marantz, one is an RCA "el cheapo" and the other is an older Pioneer. I figure if the disc plays everywhere, there is a good chance that it will play for the client - though there are still no guarantees.
Good luck,
Hunt

Error Messages When Burning / Disk only plays in certain DVD players

When burning most all of my DVD's in DVD Studio Pro, after all of the encoding in the burn process and the program starts the initialization, I get a Media Error Calibration Error message. When I retry to burn, everything seems fine. But, my DVD's only play in some DVD players. Others say unreadable disc. Any ideas?

Many times, media can cause your problem, I use Maxell myself, (never had any compatibility issues. Here's a URL to a site that rates the quility of many different kinds of media and there reliability.
It also includes alot of very useful info below the ratings area.
URL: http://digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
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FCP audio only plays through computer speaker?

I can not get FCP to play out through my audio interface for some reason. FCP only plays out of my iMac internal speaker. All other computer sounds are coming through the audio interface selected in system preferences (M-164UF Tascam Mixing board) except FCP. What am I doing wrong?

Yup, there it is. I looked in five different places, but forgot to look here. That's the danger of being away from using FCP for a few months. You forget where all the buttons are. Thanks for answering my embarassingly dumb question.

Audio in Premiere only plays on computer

Hi,
I am running a mac mini, now on 10.9 ( had same issues on 10.8 ) and using Premiere CC to edit some video. The issues is that when editing the audio will only play back on the inturnal mac mini speaker. I have tryieed to plug in headphones and tryied to use the Thunderbult disply speakers and even with thouse conneted it will still only play back on the little speaker. The exported video will play back just fine on any speaker set up. All other apps play sound just fine.
Any Ideas?

lol! I'll give those a try. What I've found in the interim is this. I a dvd+r by Fujifilm and it successfully played on one of my players. I tried the sony dvd-r on another machine and it works. Still, the strange thing is that I've burned on that same disc before and it works on all my machines, but this one just works on one.
I guess I need to find a disc that is compatible to all formats - if that's possible.
Thanks, Joy

Burn CDs to play MP3 format - with Lion

Can someone remind me how to burn a CD that will play on an MP3 player or older car CD player? I've done it before, but Lion has had an update since then...and I can't remember how to change the burn settings. And yes...I am using a music CD-R, not a data CD. Thanks.

Treble clef was probably just printed on the disc and has no special meaning. Any CD-R disc can be a audio disc or a data disc. Which it ends up being depends upon how you burn it.
From reading other posts, apparently the burn item is under File. You select a playlist, then File > Burn I am guessing at that stage you are presented with the type of CD to create.
Older car players probably cannot do mp3 CDs. If you have a MP3 player -- well, I'm not sure how you'd put a CD into a mp3 player. Most ipods I have seen do not have CD drives! If you mean a mp3 compatible audio CD player, for that there is probably a mp3 format selection or you need to create a data CD with mp3 files on it.

Can no longer burn CDs to play in my car

I'm not a huge iTunes user, so it's been a while since I downloaded some new songs.
What I'm finding is that the songs I've downloaded and burned to a CD will not play on my car stereo. I'm willing to pay the .30 extra for each song, but I can't even find out how to do so, or even find anything about iTunes plus in the iTunes store!
I DID, however get a message asking me if I wanted to pay the extra .30 for some songs I downloaded long ago!
What I want is to be able to play the last 11 downloads in my car. I'm willing to pay, but can't find out how.
Any suggestions?

You have always been able to burn even copy protected tracks to an Audio CD. That hasn't changed. All tracks sold on the iTunes Store now are DRM free. Track prices now range form .69 to 1.29 but the price is unrelated to copy protection.
You may still be using the same brand/type of discs but are you still burning in the same format? When you select the playlist that you want to burn to a CD, then press "Burn CD", you get a dialog box that offers you options. Be sure you have "Audio CD" selected.
If, what you're really trying to do is burn an MP3 cd, you'd first need to make sure that all of the tracks in the playlist are mp3s. If not, you'd need to convert them. You'd need to make sure that your import settings were set to mp3 by going into Preferences>General and pressing the Import Options button and selecting the desired mp3 settings. Then, you select the tracks you want to convert, and from the Advanced menu, choose Create mp3 version. Note: this creates a new mp3 track. It doesn't change the existing track. And, it doesn't work on protected tracks. Protected tracks, as noted above, can be burned to an Audio CD which you can then use as you would any other Audio CD.
Best of luck.

Burned CDs wont play on other machine

suddenly when i burn a music CD from my library or playlists it seem to burn too quickly. then info says the files are on the disc but disc will not play on any other CD player....what gives?

neverind...figured it out...preferences>advanced>audio CD

I just bought a new mac mini and an external DVD burner. I want to burn a DVD video and it will not play on the TV but only on the computer? Need this figured out for tomorrow.

I just bought a new mac mini and an external DVD burner. I want to burn a DVD video and it will not play on the TV but only on the computer? Need this figured out for tomorrow. Can anyone help me?

Congratulations on the new Mini. Are you saying you tried burning and it does not play, or do you want to burn it only for the computer to be able to play it?
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Burned CDs won't play in CD player

Since updating to Leopard, the CDs I burn will only play in the computer. My car player doesn't recognize the disk. I'm burning as an Audio CD. What else could I do? Thanks.

Are the cd-rws or cd-rs? Try a different brand. Try to burn at a lower speed. Many choices.

DVD Plays on computer drives, but not on dvd players

iDVD 06 - This is a new problem, just happened two days ago. Previous dvd's burned with idvd 06 work just fine on old and new dvd players. I always test them after burning. However this new project will only play on computer dvd drives (mac or pc) but not on my dvd players. The menu screen shows up, but when the play button is pushed it never starts. Disk is clean, re-burned dvd, re-exported the video and re-did the entire dvd, same issue. I have not changed any settings in iDVD 06.
Yes, I even re-installed idvd 06, but then somehow I lost some of my old themes (which happened to be the ones I wanted to use) I did back up my previous copy of idvd 06 which has my old plain themes that I love to use in the package, so I do have those. But if I bring them into the newley re-installed idvd 06, all the features do not work. Such as being able to change the type size on that paticular menu.
I am using Verbatim 8X DVD-R's and have successfully used these just the other day on another project! And those work just fine on an old and new dvd player!
I had to get these dvd's because my burner would not burn on the 16X DVD-R's that I recently bought.
DVD Burner information is:
SONY DVD RW DW-U10A:
Firmware Revision: A43h
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 0 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: No
Computer information:
Machine Name: Power Mac G5
Machine Model: PowerMac7,2
CPU Type: PowerPC 970 (2.2)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.8 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1.5 GB
Bus Speed: 900 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.0.7f0
Any suggestions???
G-5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

No rhyme or reason... but tried one more time after putting back my old copy of idvd 06 with my oldest themes in it, and I now have DVD's that will play on regular DVD players!
Now, if Apple could just get us a firmware update for the SONY DVD RW DW-U10A which came with my G-5 and then maybe we could all burn disks at the new 16X speed! Instead of limiting our possibilites.
Oh and yes, I did contact Sony about firmware updates. They informed me that this is really an OEM drive (whatever that is) and that Sony does not support it!

Satellite A200 cannot burn CDs

I have a A200-1GB and I can't burn cds, only dvds. I tried different programs but it was the same.
What can be the problem? I want to update my driver but I don't know which driver it is from the download page. So, please help.
Thanks.

> That's what I want to do. But I don't know where the driver is. In the drivers page all I have is a DVD player driver which I don't think this is what I'm looking for.
You have misunderstood something.
Jimi have spoken about the CD/DVD drive (ODD) and NOT driver !!!
There are no special CD/DVD drivers because Windows uses an own Microsoft driver to control and run the CD/DVD drive!
So either youve got an hardware problem or you have used not compatible CDs

After mixing a project i select bounce and burn the disc that is burned plays on any cd player but when i try to burn the wav or mp3 file that was created the resulting disc will only play in a computer this also happens with video projects help please

after mixing a project i select bounce and burn the disc that is burned plays on any cd player but when i try to burn the wav or mp3 file that was created the resulting disc will only play in a computer this also happens with video projects help please are there any settings i need to alter as it seems the wav or mp3 file i ceated is being converted to a data file somewhere between the folder and disc drive

Same thing for a movie file.. If you want to play back the movie via a DVD and a DVD player you must create a Movie DVD and not just burn files to a data DVD... as Data DVDs are just storage devices for files and therefore will only work with computers...
Movie DVDs are special formats that include things like menus and special file formats.. so they can playback via a DVD Player...
You will need a 3rd party DVD Burning app like Toast which is what i actually use.... or the more popular DVD Creator app...to create and then burn a Movie DVD that will playback on a DVD Player....
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101220205435AA70beb

Burned CDs will not sync to my ipod. I just replaced my computer with a different computer, unauathorizeed all previous computers, authorized the one i am now using, but only purchase content will transfer to my ipod.

Burned CDs will not sync to my ipod. I just replaced my computer with a different computer, unauathorizeed all previous computers, authorized the one i am now using, but only purchase content will transfer to my ipod.

Hi ballen13!
I have an article here for you that may be able to address your question and provide some insight into this issue:
Some songs in iTunes won't copy to iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1420
Take care, and thanks for visiting the Apple Support Communities.
-Braden

Burned CDs only play on computer

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