what am i doing wrong (burning mp3 files to disk)

[rburkartjo]

i am using linux mint8(former ubuntu user for years) . okay what am i doing wrong. i thought i had this figured out. my daughter uses songbird and has download (all legal) some songs in mp3 format. i burned them to a cd. these songs will play fine if i insert them into my computer and play with vlc xbmc no problems but when i insert the cd into a cd player not attached to my compter or my car cd player the songs wont play. so how do i correct know someone knows an answer/tks

[Cheesemill]

You have to make sure you're burning them as an Audio CD, not just burning the .mp3 files onto a CD.

[73ckn797]

If you have a MP3 compatible CD or DVD player, a disk with MP3 files should play. I have done it.

[rburkartjo]

cheese yes i used brasero and did that but still didnt work

[rburkartjo]

73 if i put in my car cd still doesnt work and all files copied are in mp3 format and ideas should i try sound convert and chanage them to wave files

[Iyunkateus]

This is probably a stupid question to ask, but are you sure that it's a CD and not a DVD?

[fromthehill]

cheese yes i used brasero and did that but still didnt work

I'ts possible the cd player is broken. but probably not

an audio cd can only hold 80 minutes of music. it doesn't matter what quality or how big the mp3's(or other music format) are.
if it burns more than 80 minutes without warning you're probably burning a data-cd.

if you use the cd/dvd creator under accesoiries and drop the files onto the cd it is not going to create a audio cd
you should use the brasero burner under 'Sound & video' and click on the first button 'Audio Project'
when dropping files on the cd you should see 'project estimated size: XX:XX min' on the bottom bar

[rburkartjo]

iy not a stupid question. i am using a dvd-rw disk to burn the mp3 files

[rburkartjo]

from you said

if you use the cd/dvd creator under accesoiries and drop the files onto the cd it is not going to create a audio cd
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and that is what i basicly did. so how do i do it correctly

[Jonwenger]

I am not sure, but it seems like that Brasero can only make Audio CDs. So make sure you have a CD not a DVD.
What you do is:

Applications>Sound & Video>Brasero>Project>New Project>New Audio Project

Then click the green + and add your mp3 files. Burn it and play it with the CD player.