Burned CDs won't play on portable player

My friend who has a PC has been burning CDs for me of spoken-word MP3s. They play fine on my portable CD player. Recently she gave me a USB drive with a bunch of MP3s for me to burn myself on my new MacBook Pro. The CDs I burned won't play on the CD player (but they will play in iTunes on my computer). I don't understand what's going on...can anyone help out? Thanks.

Yes, if your interest is only in burning CDs and you don't want to keep the music in iTunes, the process is pretty cumbersome. You may want to buy a disc burning application like Toast, which can burn all sorts of formats without your needing to import anything into iTunes.

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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.

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.
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Burned disc won't play in CD Player

Help Please!
I burned a disc in iTunes.
The disc will play in the computer;
but it won't play in the CD player in
the car or the home stereo.
I suspect it is a file extension issue,
but I don't know how to check or change
anything.
Thanks in advance for your help!

Yes Audio CD should play just about anywhere so if it's not playing then it's not down to the setting you have chosen. It may just be your players, some can be fussy about what they will read, or it could even be the CD media itself. Have you been able to play CDs you've burned before or is this the first time you've had a problem? Have you another brand of blank CDs you can try?
Another thing you could try is reducing the burn speed and see if that helps, especially of you have it set at Maximum Possible. Open iTunes and go to Edit>Preferences>Burning and reduce the Preferred speed down. The packaging for your CD should have a maximum burn speed quoted somewhere, go lower than that. For instance if it's 24x try burning at 16x

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All of a sudden, the CDs I burn from Itunes do not play back. I thought it was just the CDs purchased from Itunes but it is all music from my library. I export the playlist & it burns but when I go to play it back, nothing. I have tried several stereos . . .
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kmizzo, 3 things to check first:
- Are you using CD-Rs? (Avoid CD-RWs since many stereos have trouble with them.)
- In Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Burning, are you still set for "Audio CD"?
- Can the burned CDs play back in iTunes on the same computer where you burned them?
By the way, what do you mean by "export the playlist"?

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I can burn an audio cd in itunes succesfully, however when I try to play the audio cd on my car cd play it won't work....someone help!

Now I have this problem as well. I'm trying to burn an audio CD from iTunes that will play in my car.
At first I thought it was an iTunes purchased music issue, but I tried burning a cd containing a mix of music I've imported into iTunes and purchased from iTunes. Same result. I've tried changing settings, different cd brands with no success.
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My burned DVD won't play on DVD player or VLC

Hi all,
I have a DVD that was burned by a colleague that will not play on any of the computers in my office. It opens automatically in DVD player and freezes on the title (there is no menu on the DVD) with the words "PLAY" in the bottom right corner and when I press play or skip or anything, either nothing happens or there is a "not permitted" message. The same thing happens when I try to play it on VLC and when it won't open in Quicktime. I have no clue what this could be as it plays on my computer at home and my Xbox and my colleague tested it on her own computer before she sent it over. Please help! This is incredibly frustrating.
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Hi
The most common origin to this are:
• Brand of DVD used - was to Cheap e.g. Memorex, NoName etc - known problem makers.
• Type of DVD used - DVD+/-RW are a NO NO, DVD+R plays well on newer DVD-players - I use DVD-R
• BURN SPEED - I always set this down to x2 or max x4 - and it's so much better
• Dusty DVD burner - I run a Cleaning DVD from time to others - NO LIQUID but the ones with brushes
• Material feed to iDVD - doesn't suit - iDVD tries many Video-Codecs, Audio and Photo file formats it really can not handle = A BAD DVD.
• Very low - FREE SPACE on Boot hard disk (I never go less than 25GB)
Usually one of these or all of them results in disaster.
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I cant get my purchased music to format for Auto CD player. My preferences are set as you mentioned above.
And for the record, you're using a CD-R?
What's Plan B?
Plan B?
Who said anything about a Plan B?
Well here are a couple of links to the Apple Knowledge Base you might want to look over:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesMac/7.0/en/576x.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25402
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Problems is this is to be shown for a wedding Sat., I leave in the a.m.
It will on play on my desktop
I do have husbands laptop - Windows whatever I will see if I can connect to TV
Any other format to try burn? Do I just need a new DVD player? I'll hope they have a newer one.
Thanks - I am running out of time.

Hi Patti,
welcome to this forum
there's no such thing as "DVDVCPRO"-video-dvd.... that is just an export option in iM for.... you're short in time, forget it...
in Toast 6.1.1. (you need the latest update), choose "video" and simply drag'n drop your whole iM project (NO export needded!) into it - boom, done...
post here progress of your project, the European dayshift is awake ;-))

Burned DVD won't play on outside player but OK with Toast

Here we go again!
After scanning the other posts I still cannot find anything to make my problem go away.
Situation: New G5 Quad and all of HD Suite installed.
Have gone through DVDPro advanced tutorial OK.
Burned to Memorex DVD-R media.
Plays great on G5, and a G3 that I still have, with DVD Player app.
But after trying disc on 3 different outside players they still come up with "unreadable disk" or "bad disk".
Players are relatively new - one mf'd within the last year in a TV combo, and the other, my favorite, Apex AD1200.
I figure if something will play on ANY machine, it will play on the Apex.
I have burned the same file to Toast 7 using the DVD Video from VIDEO_TS option and have been able to play it on my Apex with no problem.
However, inserting this "Toasted" disk into my computer gets me everything except the audio.
I have talked to Support and they do not cover this problem, but pointed me to a page on the Apple website for deleting preferences, which I have done with no effect, and have done a clean re-install of the application, again with no change in what I am getting when re-burning disks.
Anyone have any ideas as to what needs to be done to make this application work properly?
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G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.5)

GENTLEMEN -
I posted this to the BMUG website subsequent to chasing down the suggestions offered at that time.
So far the response has been ZERO . . .
At the March 20 meeting I brought up my problems with selecting the correct media for burning my DVD Pro files so that they would play well across a range of dvd players out in the real world - approaching what you expect when you buy a commercially produced DVD movie.
I’m running the G5 Quad, and have the Final Cut Studio HD package.
I am simply looking for some guidance from Apple. Is there a favorite media that has been settled on by Apple, or Apple employees by word of mouth?
One of the attendees stated that he had no problems with his machine or disks that he produced. I wish to communicate with him as to exactly what he is doing and what he is using to be problem-free.
Another attendee suggested I contact the drive manufacturer and ask what media they recommend. Problem is, there is nothing in the Apple profiler that tells me who manufactured this drive. All I can glean from my profiler is the model number, which is HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA-4165B. Other forums suggest it is a Hitachi. My own investigation yields the probable manufacturer as LG Electronics. They do not show that EXACT model number (the last 4 digits are slightly different) in their lineup, so I am assuming it is a special build for Apple. So much for that line of inquiry.
I initially used DVD-R media. This played back OK on my computer DVD player, and about 2 out of 15 other DVD players I sampled. Using the same media and file, I burned a disk using Toast 7 on the superdrive. It played fine on three players it did not play on before. I only used the ones that I had immediate access to.
When I switched to 2 different DVD+R media I got the same results as the “Toasted” -R disk.
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There is no question about the correctness of the file itself. It is the completed Advanced Tutorial for DVD Pro.
I cannot proceed with projects I have until I can be certain that I am not producing coasters for the majority of the dvd readers out in the real world. I purchased all this gear just so that I could do what it promises can be done with it.
Some answers.
Please.
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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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