CD Burning

TonyBlue... sometimes it's just the disks that you're using.  I would try a different brand and see if that solves your problem.  Also, some older CD players (made before burning became popular) just can't handle a burned disk.  Different software "could" help, so I'd take tonynulty up on his offer as well.  Good luck!

Thank you all, I think tonynulty is very kind, and I will send him my address, but mekiksmom may have hit the nail on the head, yesterday I got some disks form Tesco, they only had there own brand, the problem seems worse today, when using the Tesco disks.

Once again I thank the members of this site for takeing the time to help others.

TonyBlue

Hi Steve, I thought Memorex where one of top brands, so which should I buy, also I have a Sony HiFi in the home, the booklet with it tells you it wont play home recorded disks, and they are right, it wont.
TonyBlue

I don't really burn music cd's anymore ... we all have ipods or cell phones that play mp3's around the house now a days.  When I was burning them, I had problems with memorex in my other cd burner.  It was an aftermarket burner that I added to a computer.  I recall being really surprised when I looked into it back then, thinking Memorex was a "great" name brand... but that actually is NOT the case!  Apparently there are some differences in the quality of blank CD's depending upon where they were manufactured.  I just looked this up to refresh my memory... check this link out (comments from 2002):

http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/thread/147411005.aspx

I'm not sure what the suggestion is now on what's good and what's not... but I have TDK DVD-R's that I use to burn DVD's and large amounts of data generally without any problems (sometimes my older DVD player doesn't like them, sometimes it does).  I use Sonic to burn DVD's... I hear Nero is good... and I didn't like Roxio when I had it on my older machine.  I also have Fujifilm CD-RW's that I use for files... and I've got some pictures saved on Kodak CD-R's.  I haven't had any issues with those, but I only use them in computers!  I see that my mother purchased a stack of Memorex DVD-R's for me... haven't opened and tried them yet.  It'll be sad if that's a stack of 25 frisbees. 

Good luck, let us know if you find a good brand that works for you!  Next time I go shopping, I think I'll try Steve's suggestion on the Phillips brand! 

Nero Disk on way, on Monday 8th March.

Vista is Windows software I also use Vista

I think Windows 7 is the new system but no matter not worth debating it I hope everthing works out ok either way

Russell was wrong? I dont recall telling you the disk would work. when I spoke of Nero in another thread I was referring to the burning program not a disk

Have you tried burning with iTunes?  I had problems with  the Roxio burner AND Windows Media before I finally tried iTunes.  Now all my audio discs burn fine.

That's a good point Phill; I do recall there being a big difference between the + - with the aftermarket burner that I had... but I'm pretty sure that this only applies to DVD disks.  I believe all CDR disks are of the "-" flavor (CD-R) ... I don't think there are CD+R or CD+RW.  DVD-R was the first one DVD+R came after and has different capabilities but the cheaper or older DVD recording drives did not support the + option... so if you are buying DVDR stick with the DVD-R if you are in doubt (although now you can buy DVD-+R so the disks support recorders that will do both, or just one). 

On another note... you do want to stay away from the CD-RW for burning and playing music in a traditional CD player, I imagine many of them will not recognize the disk... the RW (rewritable) media is more for saving files and such, not designed for creating a playable disk (and it's more expensive).

Some software will also ask you if you want to "close" the CD when you are finished... the answer is YES!  If you don't close the CD it will not be readable. 

itunes is an excellent option for burning music files to CD for playing... it is free... good suggestion PaPaTom!  As a windows user however, it takes a bit getting used to for navigation purposes.  They do have downloads available for Xp, Vista, and probably the new Windows7 as well.  It's not an all inclusive burning program, but will absolutely do what you want it to when it comes to burning music cd's!  Another simple answer to the software issue!

When ever I burn ANYTHING... the first thing I do when it's complete is put it back into the computer to see if the computer can recognize it before even bothering to try it in a CD player or DVD player.  Figure, if the computer it was burned on can't recognize it then nothing else is going to.  If not, then it is probably the disk itself.

I was just looking through my discs (and there are many!) and I've found some that will only record on my stand alone CD recorder and they are TDK CD-Music. I think you have to use DATA discs in your PC.

Phill