My cd player will not play any cd's that I have burned myself.?

Question

It plays normal cd's, but won't read any burned ones...why is that??

The burned cd's works in my portable cd player but not in the larger one.

Answer 1

Some CD players (especially older ones) won't read the CDs you burn yourself. CDs that you buy at the store and burn yourself record music or data by changing the color of the dye on the CD unlike the store bought CDs that actually have microscopic grooves in the plastic.

You might try buying a different brand of CD. The colored ones (blue, green, pink, purple) are especially bad for older CD players. The best are the gold colored CDs then next is the silver colored CDs. The more money you spend on your recordable CDs the better your chances are that your CD player will be able to read it. Your goal here is to increase reflectivity on the CD so that the laser will be able to read the differences in the dye. In some cases, nothing you try will work. It all depends on your CD player.

Answer 2

Some of the player are made to play only origina CDs i.e. branded ones.These cannot recognize the CD-r,CDRW formats.
If this is the problem u faced after a long time usage of the player then its time to get the Laser assembly or the Lens to be changed.
In this case if you still want to try then go for a sony CD-R and write it at a speed of 8x and then try again.

Answer 3

When you go to burn the cd, make sure you are making it an AUDIO cd. I have done that before and it automatically makes it a DATA cd, unless you change it. DATA cds will only play on your computer usually. It should be in the upper right corner if you are using windows media player.

Answer 4

You are using the wrong type of media. You cannot use cdrw. Some players won't play an mp3 cd. Different colored discs won't play in all machines either, stick to the normal blue green for a guaranteed play. Make sure the cd's you buy are 80min 700mb Cd-r's.

Answer 5

Its quite possible that you are not burning it in audio cd format. Select the right format while burning the cd. Do not just dump the songs as files in the cd, that may not work.

Answer 6

very few issues to envision: - only be certain you're burning in CD audio format and under no circumstances documents format - attempt a diverse kind of CD to be certain if it makes any distinction on your CD participant - verify the disc in yet another CD participant to be certain even if it is the participant itself that isn't any longer interpreting the disc once you verify those, you'll likely comprehend even if it is the CD participant, or the disc itself it is causing the undertaking.

Answer 7

Well unless u're actually using a DVD which won't work, have you tried setting the burn speed lower? Try 2X, higher than that usually doesn't work on some older model cd-players.

Answer 8

Some older cd players won't recognise burned ones....or if you are burning them in MP3 format, it definitely won't. You have to have an MP3 compatible player. It should say somewhere on it if is.

Answer 9

check the cd. does it say "cd-R" or "cd-rw"
then check your cd player.
most cd-players can read cd-r's but not all can read cd-rw.

that may be your problem.
another issue might be the type of media you burned on the cd.
are they mp3? waves?
a normal cd-player cant read mp3 cd's

Answer 10

get a new cd player.your old one is not capable of playing cd/r or cd/rw. a cd player that plays them will speciffically say on the machine itself that it plays them.