CD-RW problem???

Question

Last night I bought a pack of 2 music CD-RW's. I put one into my Vista and the autorun ran just fine, but then it said something about formatting the disc. After it was done, I couldn't put music on it. I tried the other disc and now the only thing it will do when I put either in is go straight to Windows Explorer. I tried them both on my XP and it's doing the same thing, but it doesn't format the disc. Windows Media Player doesn't even recognize it and I don't know how to put music on it. WHat did I do wrong or how can I fix this?

Answer 1

Music CD-RW's are encoded with a special flag and are for use in home audio recording equipment. The extra cost of these disks is a roylaity fee for recording on Home Audio Equipment which requires these special disks. A home PC burner doesn't require these disks and so you may use the cheaper PC disks....

Maybe the special encoding on these disks is goofing with the PC's drive...

Try using some regular (PC) CD-r's they are much cheaper than a CD-RW's since the music is digitally recorded the media you record on won't make a difference.

EDIT:
Have you tried to drag and drop or cut and paste some files onto the disks via explorer then right click the dirve in explorer and select burn files to disk? You have to go through a burn process, the transfer of files to a CD is not like transfering to a flash drive.

The fact that the disks are being opened to Windows Explorer is encouraging in that the drive is recognizing your newly formatted disks.