[pchelpers] Re: CD/DVD burner

No point in burning a CD then, Ray. They are already on the hard drive 
so they play just fine with WMP.

Cy

Ray Parrish wrote:
> Well, I'm surprised that you expected them to play. They will play, if 
> you open them in a media player, but to have them play just from the DVD 
> drive you would need to convert them from mp3 and make a real audio disc 
> from the converted files. Try opening My Computer, then open the DVD 
> drive, then double click on any of the mp3 files... it should now open 
> in your default media player and play.
>
> Later, Ray Parrish
>
>   

> Cyril Halbach wrote:
>   
>> Ray,
>>
>>     OK I tested that way of writing to the CDs and it does not work for 
>> music files. Yes they transfer to the CD but neither the MP3 Player nor 
>> the DVD player can play the MP3 files on the CD. So as I mentioned in my 
>> previous email about the Help File instructions it applies to MP3 also 
>> even though they are data files. Apparently something else is needed so 
>> that Plaayers can recognize the files as music files.
>>
>> Cy
>>
>>
>>
>>     

>> Ray Parrish wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Unless my memory is playing tricks on me, I believe that DVD/CD burning 
>>> is built into Vista, and you need no additional software. Simply right 
>>> click a file, or group of selected files in file manager, and you should 
>>> be presented with a menu option to burn the files.
>>>
>>> I'm sure that XP had this capability for CDs only, but I think I read in 
>>> a group posting recently that Vista had added DVDs to it's burning 
>>> capabilities.
>>>
>>> Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
>>>
>>> Later, Ray Parrish
>>>   
>>>     

>>> Cyril Halbach wrote:
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> I just installed Roxio easy Media Creator 10 and it will just not work 
>>>> peacefully on this system with Vista Home Premium. All I am looking for 
>>>> is an Easy Simple CD/DVD burner, it does not have to be a whole Suite 
>>>> that takes over the whole computer. Does anyone have a good suggestion. 
>>>> I need something simple that will co-exist with the Magic Jack  Phone 
>>>> system.
>>>>         



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