Burning Music To Be Played On Older Portable CD Player

[Surfrider]

For my daughters "Music As Therapy" class that she's taking in nursing school, she wanted me to burn some "happy" music for to use in a therapy session.

So I went thru my collection and put together some appropriate tunes, AIFF and MPEG4 files, burned onto a CD.

They play on the computer, but on the CD player, there's just a harsh buzz sound and nada music. You can't change tracks or anything.

I pulled out an old CD I burned years ago, AIFF files, and it plays swell.

I'm using the CD Rom on my older Mac Mini running 10.6.8.

Help and thank you.

[GGD]

How did you burn it, what software did you use? It needs to be an Audio CD, I haven't burned one in years, but iTunes used to be able to do it (Toast too).

If you're just using the Finder to burn a CD with files on it, it's not going to work, especially MPEG4 files. That would just be a data CD, which computers can read, and maybe more modern CD players know how to play files from them, but they're not really Audio CDs.

[testcase]

Don't worry, be happy...... 8-)

[N-OS X-tasy!]

How soon we forget...

[tenders]

Many older CD players aren't compatible with home-burned CDs that were burned, or were designed to be burned, at high speeds.

Try burning the CD at 1X or 2X speed, and/or using a different brand of blank CD.

Old CD players also sometimes get fog on the laser and don't play well.

Isn't it easier to use MP3 files on a phone? (Hint: the answer is yes.)

[DP]

Heh, heh... Talking about "old" CD players...

[Racer X]

Older audio CD players require an audio format CD and .aif files. (aka Redbook Audio) No other choice in the matter. At some point, in the 2000s, many started to work with Joliette or ISO 9660 format, and .mp3 files