CDs I burn won't play on car player

I have no problems burning audio CDs with itunes. The CDs play great on every CD player EXCEPT the on in my car, which is where I really want to use them. I've burnt MP3 files to audio CDs using other software and they play just fine in my car, just not the CDs I create with itunes. Any suggestions? And trading cars is not an acceptable suggestion! Thanks.

Dunno what the issue is, but I've been having the same problem for a while.  Disks I burn on my arch box actually cause some settop players to hardlock.  ISOs I created a few months ago burn fine, but newly created ones, even of the same media, do not.  All of them play fine on any computer I throw them in - linux, Mac, or windows.

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