Tristram - This is what doesn't make sense to me. We've all had discman players in our time [well most of us] that as time went on, were able to play discs with mp3 files on it. It seems strange to me, not have incorporated that ability in to something like a clock radio/cd player. Is that really how it is? - Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: Tristram Llewellyn To: 'access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 12:00 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Burning discs to play in a CD player Most domestic CD machines do not play MP3 files. A few machines do and will advertise that fact however Red book audio CD format does not support MP3, it is a very old format way before MP3s. Usually the typical suites like Nero have tools for create an audio CD for domestic CD players but your limit is somewhere about 74 minutes of audio. Regards. Tristram Llewellyn Technical Support Sight and Sound Technology From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ANDY COLLINS Sent: 28 August 2012 11:47 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Burning discs to play in a CD player Hi John - Yes, I want to keep the files in the mp3 format, so I can get an entire book on a single cd, so are you saying if I do that, I can not play them in any CD machines, that I can only play them on a computer or a DVD player? I'd have thought these days that standard cd players would be able to handle mp3 files on a CDr? - Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: john coley To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 9:51 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Burning discs to play in a CD player Hi Andy, cd players won't play data disks. If you want the files as mp3 then burning as data will do fine. John. ----- Original Message ----- From: ANDY COLLINS To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 10:02 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Burning discs to play in a CD player Hi John - Thanks. Yes, I understand this I think, but I thought most standard cd players these days, were capable of playing data discs? Am I wrong about that? I'm actually wanting to burn audio books in mp3 format, on to a single cd, for bedtime reading. I don't really want to convert them to CDA format, thus producing loads of cds per book - Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: john coley To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 9:11 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Burning discs to play in a CD player Andy, it sounds to me as though you're burning as data instead of audio. If you burn mp3's to cd using data they'll remain mp3, in which case the cd will play on a pc, or mp3 player, but not on a cd player. For a cd to play on a cd player it must be burned as an audio cd, and the mp3 files will be converted before burning. John. ----- Original Message ----- From: ANDY COLLINS To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 7:04 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Burning discs to play in a CD player Hi Ibrahim - Thanks for trying to help. I am actually using CDR discs, and not CDRW ones. The disc play in other machines, such as our dvd recorder, and my old PTR1. Is there a difference between cdr and minus cdr discs? The clock radio says it supports minus cdr - Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 4:07 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Burning discs to play in a CD player Hi Andy. Thanks for your email, sorry its taken me a while to get back to you but I’ve simply been overwhelmed with emails today. OK, from what you’re describing, you appear to be doing everything correctly and the disks you are creating should not be UDF formatted disks. Its possible that your CD clock radio isn’t able to read from the disks for another reason. Try following the same procedure as outlined in your message but using a blank CD recordable disks. OK, you will be limited to using this once, however if it works then you may need to change brand of CDRW disks which may be causing the CD player problems as some devices cant play certain brands of disks. All the best, Ibrahim. From: ANDY COLLINS Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 9:25 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Burning discs to play in a CD player Hi Ibrahim - When I insert a disc, the "burn a disc" wizard opens, and I am offered today's date as a name for the disc [obviously I can choose to change this] then when I hit tab, it says: "prepare this blank disc" choose file format, where the choices are live file system, and mastered. I always choose mastered, because it says they are playable on all computers, and in some CD players, where as the live format says the disc will be like a USB flash drive, where files can be added and erased. So, how can I get round this? If when I insert a blank disc, it's properties says the file format is UDF, then is it possible to change this to a format that cd players can play. Surely, when it says a clock radio can play CDR and CDRW discs, it should also say, as long as the discs haven't been written using a burner that uses UDF as it's formatting! - Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 9:04 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Burning discs to play in a CD player Hi Andy. UDF isn’t supported on most mp3 compatible CD players, it has to be a direct write I’m afraid. Make sure the option to use the disk as a flash drive is not selected as this creates a UDF formatted disk. All the best, Ibrahim. From: ANDY COLLINS Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 8:50 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Burning discs to play in a CD player Hi all - I have no problem using the built-in burn facility on this Vista laptop, to create mp3 discs, that then play in various external machines. However, my partner has a Pure digital radio/cd player, that she only bought this week, that claims to play cdr and cdrw discs, actually, it said minus cdr [I'm not sure what the difference is on that one], but each time I burn a disc and try to play it in her machine, it says "format not supported." The DVDRW drive on my laptop uses UDF, but I wouldn't have thought this would be an issue with today's players? Anybody help me out please? - Andy ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. 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