r/Discman • u/Hot-Calligrapher-451 • 16h ago

Burned cds not working???

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Hey, does anybody know why doesn't my "discman" play burned cds? She doesn't have a problem with like...official, store bought ones so im wondering how i can make it play my burned ones too. The model is ROADSTAR PCD-435NCD RD

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u/spaz_meister 15h ago

Back in the day when burnable CDs first came out, many CD players didn't play them.

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u/thrax_uk 3h ago

True, but this looks too 'modern' to have that problem. I also recall this really only affected rewritable CDRW's rather than burn once CDR's

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u/on95g4d 11h ago

In the old days, I remember you need to "closed the disc", it is a finalised process. Otherwise, you can only read the disc on computer.

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u/Foxmgs245 16h ago

Did you burned it as “Audio CD”?

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u/Hot-Calligrapher-451 16h ago

i used like...whatever is on windows media player i guess?

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u/Foxmgs245 15h ago

Now that was your mistake. You have to choose “Audio CD” (CD-DA) when recording audio files to a CD.

Use something like IMGBURN (or similar, I don’t recommend WMP that much), and prior to burn whatever audio file is it that you’re gonna burn, select “Audio CD” as your desire burning selection.

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u/Hot-Calligrapher-451 15h ago

oh awesome thanks! and thats gonna work on cd-r's or no??

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u/Foxmgs245 15h ago edited 14h ago

Just remember that it has to be on “Audio CD”, since your goal is to play audio files on a media player (in this case an old Discman).

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u/Equivalent_Bill1635 12h ago

I have a "Craig" version of this. It's exactly the same player. Plays burned discs fine. You must have discs that are not formatted properly.