My burned cd will not play in my car... I would like to know how to transfer the format so that they will play

You need to remember to finalise or close them.

I assume you are using an audio cd producing program and not simply burning as data.

When you find out the answer, tell me as I have scads of CD's that have audiobooks on them that I would like to listen to. Ever since Sept and I had to reformat my machine I have not been able to burn any cd's and play them in my car. Before Sept anything that I have burned works just dandy. Can't figure it out either and I've tried numerous cd audio burner software to boot! This is very frustrating to me as I'm a little tired of listening to the same old books over and over again.

Curlyben - I DO finalize the discs but they still don't play in my car either! I am using the same brand blank CD's also as I did before September.

The cds are cd-rw and I am burning them as audio but the files are mp3

Burning the burn process it says that it is finalizing but do I have to do else to finalize

Try using the CD-R's instead. That's what I used prior to September and they worked just great. My car's CD system works OK on the ones I burned prior to September so I know it's okay at that end. I don't think the CD-RW's are for car CD playback.

And don't use Sony CD's.

Double check the disc in your computer, when you open up the disc make sure they are not recorded as mp3 files on the disc.

the cds are cd-rw and i am burning them as audio but the files are mp3Then you have to be positive that your car audio player decodes mp3s. Otherwise it's a case of not all players can read CDRWs.

If you are burning music files other than cda files and your car cd player does not support mps or wma you would need to convert the music files to .cda format which will play in any CD player

If your car stereo can play mp3 files and does not play them, still convert them to cda format and you should not have a problem playing in any CD player

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I personally use Deep Burner Pro for this task but above free software should work out for you