CAN I BURN MY MP3'S TO DVD & PLAY THEM ON CD MACHINE?

My question is :
Can i back up my itunes library to a dvd
and then play the whole library on the dvd
on an ordinary cd player?
I would like to back up my MP3 library to a portable &
playable format & am hoping that dvd's are essentially
very big cd's & will play on cd machines.
Any advice most welcome.
Thanks for your time.
didier

No. If you burn just a data CD with mp3s on it, it will not play in an "ordinary" CD player. You would have to burn the CD as an audio CD. However, many modern CD players are not "ordinary", in the sense that they come with the ability to play mp3s. So it's quite possible that your CD player is capable of playing mp3 data CDs.
In any case, no CD player will be able to play mp3s stored on a DVD. A DVD player would be needed for that.

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