I burned a cd but it won't play in my cd player

[nes]

hello everyone, first of all im not native english speaker so if i make mistake just dont mind.

so story begins with i bought a cd player from 2002, i came home and bought a cd-r from stationary for test the cd player. i used windows media player legacy for burning the cd, i choose audio cd setting and set the burning speed as medium. then downloaded music from youtube as mp3 format then started burning process. everyting was cool, it worked and cd player can run it.

then i bought more cds from internet the brand is HP CD-R 80min 700MB its just normal cd-r like i used before. then i proceeded exact same things like exact website i used for converting the file, exact program (wmp) etc. i made sure it was audio cd and started the progress. it burned the cd but cd player couldnt play the disk then i tried .wav format and result didnt changed then i use CDBurnerXP and result didnt changed anyway.

i can open in my pc tho it says audio cd and all the files in there is track format (.cda) and i can listen the musics that i already burned. and i used external cd burner just in case.

anyone know any solutions for this type of problem i would really appreciate.
thanks in advance

[Wrecks0]

How does Audacity fit into your problem?

[DVDdoug]

Can you play it in your computer?

Some CD players don’t do well with burned CDs and in that case, some CDs are OK and others aren’t or you can get skips & glitches, etc.

I once had a “bad batch” of blank discs where about half of them were turning-out bad.

Does it play OK in the computer? And/or do you have another CD or DVD player (1) you can try it on?

You can also try ripping the disc to see if that gives you problems. Do you know how to do that? WMP can do it, but I normally use EAC or CueRipper.

Or there is an old program called Nero DiscSpeed that can test the disc. But it’s only checking on your computer drive so if it shows problems you can believe it, but if it reads OK it may not read OK on another CD reader/player.

DiscSpeed shows a graph of reading speed and if there’s a glitch in the graph that means it had a problem and had to go-back to re-read. Try one or two good commercial discs so you know what a good one looks like. Usually it’s an upward-sloping line and I think it’s usually curved. It depends on the drive.

I use DiscSpeed every time I burn a disc.

i choose audio cd setting…

…i can open in my pc tho it says audio cd and all the files in there is track format (.cda)

GOOD! Thanks for telling us. The most common problem is people burning MP3 or WAV “data files” onto the CD.

then downloaded music from youtube

That’s a copyright violation and and against YouTube’s rules so you really shouldn’t complain when you have problems. There’s a reason that they don’t give you a download button. The artist/copyright holder gets paid a fraction of a penny when you stream, but nothing after you’ve stolen it. (Copyright is legal protection not a technical copy-protection so it has nothing to do with your problem.)

as mp3 format

WAV would be better for sound quality. YouTube uses lossy compression (Opus?) and MP3 is lossy compression. When you make an MP3 (or even another Opus) you are going through another generation of lossy compression. If somebody uploaded an MP3 (or any lossy format) that’s 3 generations of lossy compression! It may sound OK, but be aware of it and try to minimize the number of times it’s recompressed.

(1) DVD players can be tricky because most of them can play a disc with WAV or MP3 files, but in your case the computer is showing “CDA” (CD Audio) so that’s NOT your problem. Audio CDs don’t have CDA files or any “computer files”… It’s just a “representation” and that’s why they have to be “ripped” instead of just copied.

[nes]

thank you for your answer!

@DVDdoug

Does it play OK in the computer? And/or do you have another CD or DVD player (1) you can try it on?

yes its play on my pc perfectly and no i have not any other cd player.

@DVDdoug

You can also try ripping the disc to see if that gives you problems. Do you know how to do that?

i heard that somewhere but dont know how to do that i can probably find how on youtube i will try that once this DiscSpeed test finished.

@DVDdoug

Or there is an old program called Nero DiscSpeed that can test the disc.

im qurrently testing a random blank disc in the “batch” that i bought, i received a message that says “NO ADDITIONAL SENSE INFORMATION” what is that mean?

im trying another one rn we’ll see what gonna happen.

@DVDdoug

GOOD! Thanks for telling us.

yess i saw that many other forums and i said it seems like im doing everything right what is my problem then! then i wrote here

@DVDdoug

That’s a copyright violation

yea i know but im will use this for myself not selling it or anything i dont have any benefits its still illegal i know but nothing to do that

@DVDdoug

WAV would be better for sound quality.

i also tried .WAV but cd player didnt read that so then i tried .MP3

@DVDdoug

DVD players can be tricky because most of them can play a disc with WAV or MP3 files, but in your case the computer is showing “CDA” (CD Audio) so that’s NOT your problem. Audio CDs don’t have CDA files or any “computer files”… It’s just a “representation” and that’s why they have to be “ripped” instead of just copied.

so what i need to do rn? rip the disc on computer and then burn into another disc? i lost you there. thanks again DVDdoug!

[nes]

i tested one blank cd and this is the result do you know anything about it cause i dont have any idea lol

[nes]

i also tried to test one of the cd that i burned, i choose disc scan option and received this mesage “CD-ROM drive not found” also the graph dont look good i think

[DVDdoug]

@nes

i tested one blank cd and this is the result do you know anything about it cause i dont have any idea lol

That’s not really a blank CD is it? I don’t think you’ll get any graph with a blank CD. But it looks like there’s a problem near the end where the graph drops-down. Those little upside-down “V” notches look normal. Sometimes it’s just something the drive does.

But, try a commercial CD or two… (CDs from the store.) Try more than one because sometimes they have little errors too, even they play OK.

“CD-ROM drive not found”

That could be a problem… Or is that the blank disc? Or maybe another application is using the drive. I don’t remember if having the drive open in Windows Explorer “hides” it from DiscSpeed. (And I’m at work now with no CDs)

DiscSpeed does some other tests after finishing the graph, but I usually just look at the graph.

so what i need to do rn? rip the disc on computer and then burn into another disc?

I don’t think that’s necessary. I think DiscSpeed will let you know if there’s a problem. And there’s no need to re-burn what you’ve ripped. The idea is to check if the CD can be read without problems/errors.

But if you want to try (both with a good and bad or unknown disc) - Ripping with Windows Media Player., (I’ve never ripped with WMP, but you have it so it should be easier than installing and learning a dedicated ripping application.)

[nes]

@DVDdoug

That’s not really a blank CD is it?

it was blank cd the program burned cd with random files for the test i think

@DVDdoug

That could be a problem… Or is that the blank disc?

it was burned disc another app wasnt using the drive idk what caused the error

@DVDdoug

The idea is to check if the CD can be read without problems/errors.

ok i get the idea, but anyways whole process seems a lot of work and we dont even know the problem yet, i guess i will return it and buy the brand that worked on the cd player what do you think? and thanks for your interest and help again!

[DVDdoug]

@nes

i guess i will return it and buy the brand that worked on the cd player what do you think?

I think you probably can’t return it after it’s burned but it’s probably a good idea to go-back to the other brand.

It might not be the “brand”. It might just be the batch or occasionally you’ll get a bad one.

There were some brands with good reputations but what I don’t remember which ones and things have changed. Some of the “famous brands” are no longer available. I bought a stack of 50 a few years ago (I don’t remember which brand) and I haven’t been burning that many CDs.