I have been burning my playlist onto CD's but they don't play in any other devices except my computer!!! What am I doing wrong? The blank CD's say they are for music, and I also used blank DVD-RW but they won't play in my car radio or my portable CD player! Is there a certain way I need to format these blanks?

Did you finalize your discs? That is the final thing to do before you can play them, without doing that, they won't play on anything but your recording device.
If you used data discs instead of music discs, the same thing will happen.
Also, if your radio or discman can't read the type of disc you have (there are many formats), it won't play.

I use data discs for music with no problem. I suspect the OP's problem was finalization, as you said, or she may have been using CD-RW's instead of CD-R's.

ARe you using Vista?

There is a thing how vista burns cds. there are 2 options to be set. One would only make it work in a computer, the other is for multi use.

i have windows vista on my laptop and it burns the same way as my computer does,and it has windows xp

Yes it does, if the options set right. It has the so called "live file system" option, and some PCs it has been set to burn the CD as a live file system, which would make the cd only usable on other machines with Vista or Win7, but will not play on audio or video systems.

So you want to set that to "mastered", not live file system.





How to burn CDs and DVDs in Windows Vista
http://www.vista4beginners.com/Burn-CDs-DVDs

I just hit "burn" and the computer does the rest. I have never seen any pop up window asking to "finalize". Can I finalize a disc that I have already burned? How do you get that option to come up? I have an HP Pavilion dv7-1170us Entertainmenty Notebook PC, with Vista Home Premium 64=bit edition.
Thanks!

I have a stupid question but when you say "I have been burning my playlist" do you burn the M3U or WPL playlist if you did that then this is why it is only playing on your computer because a M3U is a directory of your songs on your computer so maybe that is why you can only listen to it on the computer that you burned it from since the path to each song in the M3U or WPL is only on your PC not on any other devices.

If that is the case then you need to burn only the songs you want not a PLAYLIST of them.

If that is not the case then then try using another burning program (not the integrated Vista one) to see if it will do the same thing. They are lots of free burning program that will do a great job for burning music on a CD.

I have ITunes on my computer that I have purchased tunes from. I recorded from the "purchased" icon to burn a disk from the albumns that I have purchased. I also have uploaded my own cds into my computer, and want to make duplicates for my car, and to put as many of those songs as I can on one disk so that I don't have a stack of disks in my car because I don't have the room for them all. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I guess I should call my support on the warrenty I bought with my computer? Thanks

ITunes songs will only play on ITunes compatible devices if the music you downloaded from your CD's were rip by your ITune program then they were put in its format and that is the reason why you cannot play them on any other devices (car radio ect).

TheITune format (AAC or MP4) only plays on compatible devices you will need to RIP them into MP3 format and burned them like that if your other devices read MP3 or into CDA format (CDAudio) which can only put 79 minutes of music per CD, unless I am wrong if you try to burn a cd from the ITune format to a CDA format ITune leaves a protection on it so that you can only play them in a ITune compatible device (YourPC).

Hope that helps.

Ok, First what is the format?
Are they from Itunes?
If they are, then you will need to convert them from M4A to MP3 first, then they will only play if your player supports Mp3 format.

If not, get a trial of Nero, or Easy-CD-creator and try that..
You may need to purchase some software...