Derrick Hudson

On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:58:50 GMT, David Rhodes wrote:
>
> "Pete Elton" <elton@wiz.nospam.ard.com> wrote in message
> news:f319a$42542588$d82ea013$30163@VIAWEST.NET...
>>
>> You're talking about burned CDs that play in CD players,
>> not CDs with mp3s on them, correct?
>
>
> Well I amk talking about the cd's I burn on my pc that I download from
> I-tunes.

Make sure you are burning audio CDs. I've never used iTunes to burn a
CD (I found other ways to remove the DRM and reclaim my fair-use
rights) but I know it has that capability.

> MP4s I guess

For iTunes Music Store, the file is MPEG Layer 4 encoded audio stored
in an AAC container.

> but I have MP3's I sometimes get from IRC as well.

One way or another you need to convert the audio that you have into
WAV format for creating an audio CD. The mechanics of doings this
depend on the tools you have available.

You can verify the disc you already made by putting it in your
computer's cd drive and see if the system shows you a bunch of files
or if it indicates it is an audio, not data, disc. Are you using OSX
or Windows? IIRC Windows Explorer appears to show files named "Track
01.cda" or some such for audio discs. (those are not actual files,
but just a way of presenting the information in explorer) I don't
know how OSX's Finder (or whatever they call it now) behaves.

> I have bought a few dance cds that are from Austraila and other
> places that won't play either. But they will play in other cd
> players in other cars. A 2000 Malibu comes to mind as well as other
> friends cars.

Maybe the producer of those CDs tried to use other means of inhibiting
copying -- namely making an invalid disc that most regular cd players
will ignore, but some end up being unable to read them. IMO this is a
very bad choice on the part of the producer. (I'm not naming any
specific producers, but I have read a few articles pertaining to this
matter)

>>
>> I discovered in my 2002 TJ (same radio as described below)
>> that certain discs would play and certain discs would not.
>> Visually, the discs that did better were a darker green color
>> on the burned side as opposed to the CDRs that are more of the
>> plain silver color.
>
> When I put the CD in the palyer makes noise like it wants to read the cd
> then it says error and spits it back out.

FWIW, when I incorrectly burned my audio CDs, I had the following
experience trying to play it:
The player would show the wrong track time, then skip some of the
music and then show the right time and play the rest of the track
correctly. However, the player would "hang" when it was supposed
to move on to the next track and eventually eject the disc saying
it is unreadable.
I could verify similar behavior with both my computer and my cd/dvd
player. When I finally used the correct set of options to 'cdrecord'
the disc played fine in all three players.

HTH,
-D

--
Misfortune pursues the sinner,
but prosperity is the reward for the righteous.
Proverbs 13:21

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