MP3 disks for the car?

[taylost3]

Just bought a new car and tthhe CD player plays mp3 now Ive tried twice to make a disk once using imagine burn and the second time with windows media player but neither play. Can the wise SMB tell me how to do it becuase its driving me nuts?

[pickles666]

you need to burn the mp3 files as data- and not as audio - nero is good for this.

[Stray Cat]

yep

you make a data cd

[Patch]

Originally Posted by taylost3

Just bought a new car and tthhe CD player plays mp3 now Ive tried twice to make a disk once using imagine burn and the second time with windows media player but neither play. Can the wise SMB tell me how to do it becuase its driving me nuts?

Probably a disk compatibility problem. Try a few different brands (scrounge off mates rather than buying a cake box of 100) and see which works best.

Originally Posted by pickles666

you need to burn the mp3 files as data- and not as audio - nero is good for this.

Had he burnt them as audio then the player would probably have played them anyway.

To the original poster: you are buring to CD aren't you rather than DVD?

[taylost3]

Originally Posted by Patch

Probably a disk compatibility problem. Try a few different brands (scrounge off mates rather than buying a cake box of 100) and see which works best.



Had he burnt them as audio then the player would probably have played them anyway.

To the original poster: you are buring to CD aren't you rather than DVD?

Yes mate burning as CD and noI wasn't burnign them as a audio disk

Originally Posted by pickles666

you need to burn the mp3 files as data- and not as audio - nero is good for this.

Do you know any sites to download nero I dont have it

[Patch]

Originally Posted by taylost3

Yes mate burning as CD and noI wasn't burnign them as a audio disk

Do you know any sites to download nero I dont have it

I wouldn't discount the brand of CD just yet but another factor is burn speed. If you're able to drop the burn speed then I'd try that.

If you want Nero and don't want to pay then you'll have to go via a torrent or similar. Depending on the version of Windows you have, you may find compatibility issues. I'm running with Windows 7 and I've found that my old Nero 7 software (which allowed me to control burn speed under XP) no longer works and the Nero updater seems to just remove my old version without installing a replacement.

[cruze]

just use wmp and burn as data cd

[Manuel]

All of mine work perfectly ok using WMP. Except my car which apparently can't read the disc if there are any image files on (album artwork etc)

[Billy Fish]

Some machines won't read +- CD/RW will they.

[PTR]

Probably the way WMP is Finalising the disks.

Use a proper burner.