Burned Audio CDs Won't Play

[spotteddog]

Ubuntu 9.04

I tried burning (original is MP3 file on my Hdd) an Audio CD and a Data CD with Brasera (reading that from another post) and I tried using CD/DVD Creator. I've wasted 9 CDs so far trying to get this to work. :mad:

The burned CDs play fine on my PCs (both Vista and Ubuntu), but will not play in my Sony CD/DVD Player or in my car's CD player. The Sony gives the error, "No Disc Found" and ejects the burned CD. That means it must be in some format that the CD/DVD Play doesn't recognize. But when I put the CD in my PC and explore, it lists the format as MP3.

I can burn the same file using Nero 9 on Vista and it plays fine on anything I put it into.

I've been researching this all afternoon with no luck. So in frustration, I thought I might as well make this post.

Thanks ;)

[sgx]

I make audio CDs with k3b, kde 3.5.10, they work fine in the store-bought gizmos. Well worth the download. K3b has never llet me down. I use the setting 'track at once', with 12x speed, unless I'm in a real hurry. You can do test burns in k3b, which might help in your case.
Cheers

[Hobgoblin]

2 things spring to mind.

1. Sony CD players are notorious for refusing to play CD-R

2. (more likely if the Sony plays CD_R burned from Windows) You are not finalising the disk.

[philcamlin]

sonys cd drives are garbage. maybe the disk wasnt burned properly or it was burned too fast with errors

did you verify the disk ? after burn

[spotteddog]

Thanks for all the input.

Looks like I should try k3b.

The Sony CD/DVD player will play a CD-R and the same file, if I burn it with Nero Express on Vista. So that rules out a CD-R conflict.

The said burned CD plays on both my Jaunty PC and my Vista PC, so it's not garbage or errors.

I watched the burning process and the last message that Brasero gives is "finalising". But do I have to do something else (manually) that I am not aware of to finalise the CD?

Could any of that point to something else that I could be doing wrong? It can't be that hard?

I've been using Nero for years to burn CD/DVD's and never had any kind of problem what-so-ever. With all the versions of Nero I have had, I just installed it and started using it. There was nothing for me to "learn" with Nero. It just worked.
It seems like everything I try with Ubuntu takes days (weeks) of learning and research to get it to work.

Thanks again. I appreciate the help.