Audacity Forum

I got a disc with a language learning book I bought. The disc is mp3. I want to play it on my car's cd player, so I opened it with audacity, and exported some of the files as wav onto another disc. My cd player won't play it. Also, windows media player won't play it. I can open the wav files with audacity and play them on my computer. And the original mp3 plays fine. Any suggestions?

Nowhere in that process did you make a Music CD. My truck would not have played it, either.

Find the highest quality version of the work, or the work as closest to the original and open it in iTunes. Make sure it plays OK.

Create a Playlist and drag that music file over to it. Burn Disk from the little tag in the lower right, OK the speed dialog, and wait for iTunes to tell you to put an empty disk in with a message on top. Do not put a disk in ahead of time.

That disk should play anywhere.

A Music CD -- a real one -- will not hold more than 80 minutes of show. Break up the work into 75 minute chunks and make multiple disks. The accurate capacity is something like 79 minutes and 30 seconds, or something like that.

Some advanced players, modern cars, and almost all computers will play a Data CD (which is what you've been making) with MP3 files on it. All older music players will not.

Koz

That worked Koz. Thanks!