Thought help: i have a dell inspirion 1525 and when i burn cds, its fine, buit when i try to play them in my car, it always says error,. - Help.com

check in your burning software to see if you’re finalizing the disc.

there are certain settings which allow it to be played on other computers, or on your computer only.
Maybe setting it back to default?

what program do you use to burn?

i use the default windows media player

ok, do you have XP or Vista?

vista

also, have you ever been able to burn CDs which play in the car on that computer?

yeah, it only plays on my computer

do you know if you have any other burning software? like NTI CD Maker

well i have itunes, i think i used it before, but i dont know for sure, but other than that no

hmm, ok

lemme see what’s out there. The Windows one is a pain cos eventually you need to supply licences etc.

your computer is a laptop, right?

here’s the program I use…Media Monkey. http://www.mediamonkey.com/trialpay

click on the left hand download button, that’s the free one

works every time for me

oh coo awesome i will try

ok, I’ll be on for a bit. did you plan on downloading it now? I can walk you through it

you’ll find it’s similar to iTunes but a LOT smaller and doesn’t take control of your computer.
I use it to play all my music too.

well i think ill be able to go through it on my own, but if i need help i will defienetly ask you later , thanks alot

you’re welcome

ok, i used the program u told me,, and still the cd wont play in my car…. whats up with this?

when you go through the burn wizard, and get to the “burn settings” page

do you have the following settings:

action: burn
burn speed: 48 times
write method: track-at-once
finalization: finalize

?

browsing through Windows Media Player settings too.

in Options, under the “rip music” tab, what do you have for the Rip settings, format?

the choices are:
Windows Media Audio
Windows Media Audio Pro
Windows Media Audio (variable bit rate)
Windows Media Audio Lossless
mp3
wav (Lossless)

the first post I did about the burn wizard is in Media Monkey