Burning CDs to play on my Arcam CD73

[BigDogsWang]

Hi. I have a number of Sony CD-Rs which people have burned albums onto for me, and they play perfectly in my Arcam CD73 player. However, when I burn them myself using Windows Media Player, they do not work, but they work on my Panasonic DAB radio / CD player. I have downloaded the albums from the net and converted them to MP3 files before burning them, but the Arcam just wont play them. I will reiterate however that they do play the ones other people have burned for me. What am I doing wrong?

[rojash]

Not all CD players can play MP3 files. I suspect that the Arcam is one of those that can't!

[paintpowder1]

I agree with above,but am curious to know if your friends' used the same format as you to burn them,as not everyone uses WMP for this. If they do,then did they use audio or data,or wma etc., as there are so many imponderables here,not to mention protected files!

[BigDogsWang]

I have checked the properties of the burned disks that DO play, and they have a format of .cda

Do you know of any free software which can convert MP3 to .cda?

[magicmerlin]

If you Google 'mp3 to cda converter' you will find plenty of free software.

[BigDogsWang]

It's OK guys, I seem to have sussed it. I tried burning MP3 files to an ASDA CD-R disk, turned the burn speed down as low as possible, and put as many songs on the disk as I could fit. Apparently this all makes a difference. That plays fine. Then I tried the same onto a Sony disk and that won't play at all. I think the upshot is, it's all very temperamental and you just have to play around with it.