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Question

Burning Music CD's

May 7, 2020 1:23PM PDT

I burned several music CD's to a Verbatim CD-R blank disc. 700MB, 52X speed, 80 min. The new CD plays well in my car player but won't play on units in the house, including a Boze wave system. What did I do and what can I do to make this thing work?

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TRUE!!
May 7, 2020 2:22PM PDT

And well discussed. I will sum up that some players WILL NEVER PLAY RECORDED CDs. But there is one thing I try which is to record at 2X speed. Can help.

There are hundreds of web pages about this issue so I won't link or write at length.

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Music CD Players vs MP3 Players
May 8, 2020 12:12PM PDT

Most of the current car music players are set to play both Music CDs (the player reads a .cda music file) and .mp3 CDs (which use .mp3 files). Many of the indoor units, especially older players, will only read music CD's (.cda files). They can't read the .mp3 files used on such disks. That may be your situation here or.... because burning multiple music CDs to a different disk will change the format of the music files, the indoor unit has issues with the different format. As such, your auto player may read them but the indoor unit won't.

You can easily check the new CD by looking/exploring the file format to verify this issue. (.cda or .mp3, or something else)

Hope this helps.

Grif

Hope this helps.

Grif