Hi Andy. CD +R and –R are different formats, if your cd player only supports the latter then you’ll need to buy CD –R rewritable or recordable disks and burn the content you wish to play to those disks before it can be played on your new player. Alternatively you could burn an audio CD as another list member has suggested using either Windows Media Player, ITunes or one of many third party free or paid for programs. All the best, Ibrahim. From: ANDY COLLINS Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 7:04 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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