cd-roms

[happy_face]

How come when I burn a cd rom it won't play in my cd player. I use Nero burn programme and use CD +RW discs. Although I can play the cd roms in different pcs and also my car stereo.

Is there a certain cd I should use for putting music on cd roms?
Also when burn stuff onto a DVD +RW it won't play in my dvd player which is region free and plays everything.

I need help, thanks

[Ethel]

My guess is your cd player doesn't recognise cdrw or cdr - how old is it?

Do your dvd disks need finalising?

[retrochoir]

All cd players should recognise CD-R but many will not recognise CDRW (mine won't).

The soulution is to record to a CDR and make sure you finalise the disc.

Can't answer your DVD question I'm afraid.

[happy_face]

how do I finalise?

When burning with Nero there's no option to finalise anything. I know when I use a dvd camcorder I have to finalise and you get the option to do so, but not on Nero

[retrochoir]

When you select to burn the disc in nero there will be a box with 'Finalise Disk?' in one of the tabs.

Place a tick in this box and the cd will be finalised.

[djeffs]

hi it looks like you are not finishing the cd dvd or closing it
to see if this is true try adding more files to it if you can there is your answer if not try the software on someone elses computer or try a free download from someone else
there are lots of free ones on google

[SexySally]

Technology is a wonderful thing - shame about the incompatabilities!

When originally released, the formats for domestic players were CD-R, (for CDs!) and DVD-R (for DVDs, obviously!). These were specified and used for pre-recorded media such as the general public would buy or hire.

Only later did the other formats (CD+R, CD-RW, and later the same for DVD) get introduced for differet basic usage - mainly on computers. There are other formats as well, but to get back to the point, you can't play your CD/DVD because it's in a format your player doesn't understand. Although, more recently, multi-format players (e.g. your car player) have become available.

Because your player expects a pre-recorded CD-R, you need to 'finalise' it when you burn it so it becomes 'pre-recorded' and unchangeable. You can't finalise a CD-RW as it's not part of the format definition, so Nero doesn't offer it. (Same applies to DVDs)

So, what to do? Read each of your -RW (or whatever) disks into your computer and reburn them and finalise as -R versions. A pain, I know, but the only solution, unless you buy a more modern player (and check the specs first!)

Just to expand in DVDs and these TV to DVD recorders: As ststed above, pre-recorded (common commercial films etc.) are in DVD-R format. These TV recorders may only record in +R or RW as they are more amenable formats for ad-hoc recording, but the result won't play on common home players. Yes, I got caught by it. If you then edit the - say RW disk on a computer, it may not then play on the recoder .... Hmmm. Betamax, anyone?

My biggest gripe with these recorders is that they aren't point and shoot like the VCR. Why can't they include a battery-backed or static RAM to remember -say- the current position on the last -say- 100 disks so it works the same way: put a disk back in and pick up where you left off??? (btw Flash RAM has a relatively

[retrochoir]

SexySally - With regards to the CD (which doesn't play in the CD player) you are are over complicating the issue for happy_face.

All you need to do is copy the album to a CDR and finalise it. I have explained how to do this in my above post.

There is no such thing as a CD+R or a CD-R.

The + and - are to do with DVDs not CDs.

[TEAK36]

i would lay money that if you just used a basic CDR, everything would be ok.My car CD player is several years old and would not play CDRW discs, but it plays a CDR fine. As for finalising a disc,I have used Nero for several years now and have never ever finalised a disc, and this has not stopped any CDR discs playing in my car.

[happy_face]

Thanks very much for all your great answers. And Sexy Sally, don't worry I did understand everything you said and found it very informative. First of all I think I'm going to buy some CD R's and see how I go.

[jeffmatt]

I always use Movavi Video Suite to burn music CD, it works perfect for me, you may download it for a try, here is a guide about it
http://www.top5soft.com/tutorial/how-to-burn-c d-dvd-and-create-data-audio-video-disc.html
hope it helps