CD Won't Play In My Car

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CD Won't Play In My Car

Just got itunes. Imported about 270 songs to my PC. Love it.

However, I burned 3-4 CD's, and the CD player in my car is giving me a "Bad Disc" error. Am I using the wrong kind of CD? Anybody have any idea what I'm doing wrong? I used a TDK Music CD-R For Audio Recording.

Thank you

Posted on Sep 25, 2005 10:37 PM

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Answer 1

StarDeb55

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Sep 25, 2005 10:42 PM in response to Jason Becker

Jason, welcome to discussions! Are you sure you burned them as an audio CD? If they were burned as a data CD, about the only hardware that's going to recognize a data CD is your computer.

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Answer 2

Sep 25, 2005 10:44 PM in response to Jason Becker

Jason,
Did you burn them through iTunes, Roxio or Nero? Try using a different app to burn them. The CDs you are using should be fine. Are you burning an Mp3 CD or an Audio CD? An Audio CD should play on any machine and include 15-20 songs to fill an 80MB disc. Maybe you burnt Mp3 CDs instead which will hold up to 12 hours of music and only play on Mp3 players.

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Jason Becker Author

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Sep 26, 2005 7:40 AM in response to Silly rabbit

I burned them through iTunes, and I don't know if I burned them as audio CDs or digital. Is there a preference where I can go in and change that?

In iTunes, I just put the songs I wanted in a playlist, clicked on the "Burn CD" icon in the upper right, and did it that way. Shouldn't that have worked?

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Answer 4

Sep 26, 2005 9:21 AM in response to Jason Becker

Jason,
I would say you have burnt it as an Mp3 CD and not an Audio CD and that's why it won't play in your car. Go to iTunes preferences and select burning. You will see a pair of preferences for burning either an Mp3 or Adio CD. Just flick it over and you should be away.

Just a litttle tip. Using the Mp3 burning option is a good way to backup your music files. You can put 12 hours of music on one standard CD, which is around 1500 songs. When you want them just drop the disc in your PC and drag the songs off it you want.

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Jason Becker Author

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Sep 26, 2005 9:37 AM in response to Silly rabbit

I went and checked the burning preferences a minute ago, and it's set on audio. The files in my library are all MP4 (didn't know there was a 4, but anyway), but the burner is set on audio. So it should have burned the songs to the CD as audio files, right?

I'm just at a loss. Very frustrating, particularly since I paid to download an album from the store already and the only thing it will play on is my computer.

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MacMuse

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Sep 26, 2005 12:40 PM in response to Jason Becker

Jason - Welcome to Apple Discussuions

MP4 = Apple's extension referring to purchased files in AAC format. AAC is the audio portion of the MP4 standard, which is the "next generation" multi-media format gradually supplanting MP3.

Try making another CD, but first go to iTunes Preferences -> Advanced tab -> Burning tab and change the burn rate to 4x. CDs burned in home computers at the full advertised speed of the drive can fail to play in audio-only CD players. A slower burn can make a more reliably read CD for use in other systems.

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Jason Becker Author

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Sep 26, 2005 4:36 PM in response to MacMuse

Yaaarrrr!!!! Thank you very much. That did the trick.

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Rick Stone

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Sep 26, 2005 5:03 PM in response to Silly rabbit

"You can put 12 hours of music on one standard CD, which is around 1500 songs."

Huh? I don't think so. 700 MB CD, maybe 650 MB usable. Do the math. Perhaps you're referring to DVD, altho I haven't done the calculation. But you're certainly not talking about a standard CD.

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StarDeb55

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Sep 26, 2005 5:08 PM in response to Rick Stone

Thanks, Rick, I read that earlier today & didn't have a chance to do the math, but it certainly didn't sound right. I burned backup data CD's last night for about 360 songs, something like 1.3GB of music, & it took 2 CD's to get the burn done.

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Answer 10

Sep 26, 2005 6:27 PM in response to StarDeb55

Woops!
That should have read around 150 songs.

Jason - The old burn speed trick, hey? That gets'em every time.

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