Burned purchased iTunes won't play on external player

Granted this is elementary, but I thought we could burn songs purchased from iTunes to a CD to play in an external player. Was this wrong? If not, what needs to be done to get them to play?
Thanks,
JT
Oregon
PC   Windows XP  

iTunes prefs -> Advanced - Burning.
Set to Audio CD.

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