CDs I burn on my Mac won't play on other CD players

When I burn a CD on my mac it plays back fine on the computer but when I try to play it back on any external player there is no sound. All the files were in aiff format before I burnt them. Other Mac owners tell me they have no problem playing theirs on other players. What am I doing wrong?

I found out what my problem was. I was burning tunes that I imported from old records through "Final Vinyl", directly by putting the music files into the trash, rather than through iTunes. Even though the files are in aiff format as well, they will then be burnt in a data format which is not readable in regular CD players. when I burned them through iTunes all was well.

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Hi all!
I am totally new to the macbussines (got one for a month now) and not using cd's much I never tried importing one untill today... and it simply won't. I think it's supposed to show the audio-cd on the desktop and give me an 'import cd' button in itunes whenever I insert an audioCD right?
It won't do... it'll take it in, turn it a few times and slide it right out again.
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* toying with itunes settings for importing (import cd & eject, show CD, ask to import cd etc)
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* click the mount 'button' in disk utility as was suggested in all those threads regarding cd's not mounting first time (my cd's won't mount the second or 30th time either)
* resetting the PRAM
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It does recognise DVD's but no audio cd's whatsoever, originals, burned ones. You name it. As I don't use CD's a lot the newest CD dates from 2003, but that can't be it, can it?
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated...
o/
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