Burning cds - unreadable files

I burned CDs yesterday in Snow Leopard (right mouseclick - burning objects on CD/DVD) but ALL the files (music) have been unreadable in two different DVD/CD players. I used differemt CDs. After having tried the same in Windows 7 with Nero 10 (free version, copying CDs) I concluded that the CDs haven't been the problem.
Can you explain to me why those files cannot be read being burned in Snow Leopard?
I created DVDs via iDVD in Snow Leopard and there wasn't one DVD that got corrupt!
So how to create CDs in Snow Leopard that can be read everywhere (I use only CD-R for that reason because older players might not be able to play the music files.
I was upset that the CD burner caused a loud noise in Windows 7 Nero - sometimes, sometimes it disappeared. This noise did not appear on the same day burning DVDs with iDVD. How long should I use this part of my MBP? Not to many hours a day?
Burning the last CD today in Nero 10 the noise did not appear any more ... (but all CDs are o.k.!)
It takes quite a long time burning CDs with Nero 10 this way and I got impatient.
Are there often problems burning CDs 24 or 48 (with different hardware)?
Which external burner would you promote to create Blurays/DVDs/CDs on a MBP, Snow Leopard, i5, 17 (firewire 800/esata/USB 2)?
Now I save my data myself on external hard drives but people want to have selfmade movies and see that it might be too complicated for them to download the data from the internet so I send to them DVDs.

I did not know thant I can create only a data CD in Finder and not a music CD.
Ah! Me either. The only thing I use iTunes for is to back up my iPad to the Mac. I'm not even sure how you would go about getting DRM protected music burned as an audio CD.

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