Why does my CD-RW disk not play in my car?

Question

I burnt a CD-RW disk the ther day and it won't play in my car CD player. I bought 5 of these disks and i cannot use them.

Answer 1

Because your car stereo doesn't support CD-RW. Try using CD-R.

Answer 2

Your car CD player is probably an older one which does not support CD-RWs (re-writable) try cheap CD-Rs (one time use) instead, they work on most CD players, including the older models. They are less expensive and a 50 pack would only cost a couple of dollars so you wont be wasting much. If you really need to play RWs you will need to upgrade your CD player to a newer one that supports it.

Answer 3

The CD player in your car may not be designed to play cd-rw disks. Try CD-R. CD-RW are rewriteable and computers can read them but generally most car cd players can't.

Answer 4

The player in you car is not able to read RW CDs .. many older ones are not.

regards,
Philip T

Answer 5

Thats because the CD player in your car is not able to read recorded disks

Answer 6

Could be your player doesn't recognize cdrws or cdrs in general. Usually its the very oldest cd players that won't recognize the cdrs.

Also, any kind of mark or fingerprint will make a cdr not play.

Or, you could have a data cd and your player only plays audio cds.

Answer 7

sometimes if U buy a burnt cd and play it on ur computer after U burn it thats the only place it will play. Once I burned a cd and played it immediately in the car afterwards and thats the only place it will play. Try it again, and play it in the car first.

Answer 8

Actually your car stereo probably does not support mp3 or wma files it would make no difference to use a different disk, you would have to use a good music cd burning software to convert the files before burning them to the disk, Nero or Roxio work well.

Answer 9

Because you burned mp3's to the disk instead of burning it as audio tracks.

Answer 10

finalize the cd.