Burned CDs won't play my car, but did when I had a PC

Why am I having this problem and how do I fix it? I've tried increasing and decreasing the CD burning speeds in iTunes. Any suggestions? Thanks!!

You've hit on one of the possible issues and since changing the speed isn't working, I have to ask - and don't be insulted - you are burning a music disk and not an MP3 disk, right? Does the CD play on your Mac and show up as an audio CD? If so but not in the car I'd suspect the media - cheap media is often not reflective enough for car CD players.

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Burned CD won't play in car player

I know similar questions to this have been asked, but I have not found a solution that works for me yet. I am burning a CD-R with iTunes, but it will not play in my car player. I have tried burning at different speeds. I have tried 3 different media types (Verbatim, Memorex, generic). None of them worked. I checked my iTunes settings to make sure I am burning an audio CD, and not an MP3 or data CD. I've probably burned 15 CDs to no avail.
I am burning them on a Sony drive. The CDs play fine in my computer. Just not in my car.
My car player is an older player (1996 factory Delco), but it has no problems playing normal CDs. I get an "E20" error message if that makes any difference.
Is it just a matter of trying more media types? Anybody have a media type that they got to work in an older Delco CD player? Any other suggestions? Thanks.

I solved my problem. I can't guarantee this will work for anybody else having this same issue, but it worked for me. Since my player is 10 years old, I thought maybe the problem was the newer size of CD-Rs. So I bought some of the older, smaller size CD-Rs (650 MB versus the newer 700 MB). Now I can't be sure that was the total reason it worked, but it now works with these new CD-Rs. They are also Verbatim brand, which I also tried unsuccesfully with the 700 MB size. These Verbatims are not only 650 MB, but also a light blue tint on the bottom, which may also have made a difference. I don't know. I couldn't find any of these older, smaller CD-Rs at any local store. I found them on Amazon and ordered them there. These are the ones I ordered if you are interested.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006OX3P/102-3663220-6179311?%5Fencoding=UTF8 &v=glance&n=172282
Again, I can't guarantee these will work for you. There are probably many reasons why iTunes burned CDs won't work in some players.
Dell Inspiron 9300 Windows XP Pro Sony DVD+RW

BURNED CD WON'T PLAY IN CAR OR STEREO

Frustrated:
-new computer desktop 2006: with leopard
-itunes down loads
-macintosh hd burner that i down loaded for free onto computer
-CD-RW sony disks 700mb 1x 2x 4x speed (that could be the problem?)
-burned 19 songs, worked
-cd plays on compter good
-cd ejects in my car after 3 seconds
-sony cd/dvd player; unreadable
-i changed preferences to burn music cd at max speed; still won't play in car
HELP!
(this year I burned a cd on a friends mac note book;black; he never did it, and we changed no preferences, and i had no clue what i was doing; burned cd, not knowing what i was doing; and it worked, and the cd still plays great; that was months ago.)
now i am having problems.
did I buy the wrong cd's?
did i down load the wrong burner?
thanks in advance
dallas texas
10:20pm

back to walmart I go. I did burn on a other kind, but it won't read in the car, but I didn't make sure the preference said music cd. now it does. why doesn't this have to be so complicated?
maybe it's the burner that I down loaded: it says macintosh hd. Maybe it only burns to a higher hd quality and won't play in the car? I don't know
expensive; waste of money, but I can't rewwrite over these; i don't know how to do that?
thank you
nettie
/dallas texas

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My over 10 year old home CD-player plays every CD I burned, but my car CD-player rejects some brands.
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