Can't seem to get music saved to cd to play on stereo

[pfoley]

I saved some music from my harddrive to my cd. I tried saving it onto a CD-RW and then tried a CD-R. Does it make a difference. Am I supposed to use a CD-R-RW? That is one question I can't figure out.
Anyway, when I tried to play it on my stereo, I got nothing. I was, however, able to play it on my pc. So, I thought that maybe they have to be converted to WAV, so I purchased a Wav program by ACE on line. I converted the MP3's to Wave, and they still do not play on my stero, but do play on my pc. What am I doing wrong; does anyone have any suggestions to my problem. What are the different causes for this problem, so that I can probe into them.
Should I have converted them to Wav or not. When do you do that? I use a Nero CD burner. My stereo is not broken because I can play cd's on it that I have purchased.What do I need to check on; is it my burner settings, wav program, my cd's???

 

[LTC8K6]

Not all CD players will play burned CD's, particularly older ones. CD-R's generally work better though.

Are you sure you are actually creating an audio CD? Does it show up as an audio CD in Windows?

 

[LTC8K6]

If you want to see if your stereo is the problem, use a CD-R and copy a store bought CD with NERO. If that won't play in your stereo, then your stereo is the problem.

 

[bamacre]

One more thing, try burning at a slower speed, i.e., 16X.

 

[DetroitSportsFan]

Also .... the files should be 44,100 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo PCM wave files. This should work in most stereos. CDrws on the other hand will only play in a system that supports CDrw format. They aren't the same and your player won't recognize them unless it has that capability.

 

[pfoley]

Thank you for your input. I tried a couple of your ideas out and they worked. I just finished copying my fourth cd and all came out excellent.
I might have been opening the data mode instead of the audio cd mode in Nero. Also I tried recording it on my cd-RW and it did not work, but when I tried copying onto my cd-R it worked.
Thanks for your help. I appreciate it. I am just fumbling my way through it. There are many things I don't understand like buffer underun protection and buffer overrun and why I have to covert to my music files to Wav in order to play them. But, as long as it works, I am happy.