From: John McWilliams on
Figaro wrote:
> On Aug 1, 7:26 pm, nospam <nos...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> In article
>> <fb910c99-c2d7-403e-983d-c6d7247f7...(a)p11g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
>>
>>
>>
>> Figaro <ponsell...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> First I burned a playlist of apple lossless files.... the CD played
>>>>> fine on the computer but not in my old portable CD player.
>>>>> Next, I converted playlist files into WAV and burned again.... same
>>>>> thing happened.
>>>>> What's going on??
>>>>> What is the file format that iTunes burns to CD?
>>>>> I did make sure I was burning "Music CD" in the preference/advanced
>>>>> setting.
>>>> Has this particular CD player ever played a burned (as opposed to
>>>> commercial, pressed) CD? A fair number of older CD players don't
>>>> recognize burned media, and many that do are somewhat fussy about what
>>>> brand CD-Rs (usually based upon the dye color).
>>> It's a CD-RW.
>> cd-rw is not as reflective as cd-r or commercially pressed discs and
>> may not play in all players, especially old ones.
>>
>> what you want is multi-read capability.
>
>
> I'll try burning again with a CD-R and report back.

Just don't choose .WAV as the format; either choose .aiff or depending
on the version of iTunes, it'll choose that for you when you burn a
music CD. Few old players can handle .mp3 format.

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john mcwilliams