No, it did not burn as an AUDIO, that is when I got the write error, it burned fine when I clicked to burn as the mp3,clicking the mp3 button. But that would not make any difference, since none of my burned Cds will play on my outside player, none, neither the ones I made several years ago from all kinds of music, operas, folksongs. They all imported and they all burned, they all played on the computer, but none plays on the outside regular CD players I have.

But what good is a burnt CD whichever format it is in if it does not play on a regular player. My copy needs to play outside a computer. Here is my phone number.Maybe somebody will contribute that way, we always seem to get the issues mixed up. I am not a good explainer. And since being such an invalid, I cannot even head to the Apple store anymore,
502 937 2980
Marta






On Jul 12, 2010, at 10:40 am, Ed Wiser wrote:

But when you tried to burn an Mp3 CD thru iTunes you get the medium write error . Which is say that the CD disk that is trying to be written to is not giving the computer the proper feedback that the disk Will write correctly. OSX is very picky about the burning CD’s it uses if the disk does not return a certain level of response the Medium error will be flagged. Sometimes you can go several disk’s down in a spindle of disk to get one that will work properly.

As I said OSX is real picky about the disk feedback for burning and not all disk will work all the time.



From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Marta Edie
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 10:25 AM
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Yes, my player played the CD they sent just fine, I played it and made a cassette from it, since I had to send the CD back. I was also able to import that same CD into my computer and then was able to burn a disk, but only in the mp3 format. I then could use that burnt disk and imported it into my iMac, also. And I could play it there. I could not burn it in audio format. There it gave me the medium write error.

But yes, the CD that came played fine on both of my disk players
Marta






On Jul 12, 2010, at 09:38 am, Ed Wiser wrote:


Does the original Mp3 disk play in your CD player? Yes or No.
Yes then the CD media you have could be the issue.
No then the CD player does not support burned Mp3 disk’s.

First question.



From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Marta Edie
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But Ed, what I do not understand is that their disk does play on that player. Why would their disk then play and the one I made would not? That is my question. I played it and made a cassette from it. That will work for awhile, but when they start streaming I will be in the same fix.

So, what do you suggest? I need to solve that problem somehow.

It does not matter what the disk is burnt on, the endproduct in my computer, the burnt disk, simply won't play-- period. So I have to find a way to just dub from disk to disk , or do something in the computer to produce a different end product.
 Marta





On Jul 12, 2010, at 07:38 AM, Ed Wiser wrote:



Marta, what you are dealing with is standards. Some units do not play burned CD reliably this can be caused by the CD burning media or the chip used in the player to translate the 1’s and 0’s that the laser burns into the ink layer that burned disk’s use for recording.

The standard is : 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(audio_Compact_Disc_standard)

Not all manufactures follow the standard so a burned disk can have issues when trying to be played. The computer will work because a computer manufactory such as Apple expects at some time that a burned disk would be used. A stand alone CD unit may or may not expect a burned disk to be played in the player an so may use a chip set that will play Stamped disk’s which is how bought from the store CD’s are made using a glass master disk but will not play a burned disk.

Also not all CD player will play Mp3 disk’s this requires a more expensive chip set than the basic audio chip set and a lot of CD players do not include this or charge a higher price to compensate the use of the more expensive chip set.

For a basic CD for a certain number of track’s iTunes does fine. In your case they had to burn the file as an Mp3 file for it to fit on to the CD do to the size of the file. They could not burn it as a straight Audio CD due to the original size of the audio file. 740 meg bits is all that fits on a Audio CD and the mp3 file would be larger than the size of the CD after it is transcoded to the larger file size of the Audio CD format.


From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Marta Edie
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 6:59 PM
To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers
Subject: Re: [MacGroup] addendum

Yes, an MPEG audio file. Sorry. This all has me so confused, and it drives me crazy when I can't figure something out. I don't do much importing from the iTunes store. They were always protected files and you could not even share one song with the friend over the computer. I rather bought my CDs and then imported them if I wanted them in my computers. So I never paid much attention to copying and playing on a CD player. But now I am confronted with making copies that play on an outside of the computer unit.
Marta






On Jul 11, 2010, at 18:35 pm, David Harker wrote:




i take that to mean it was an mpeg file.

On 7/11/10, Marta Edie <[email protected]> wrote:
Always forgetting something. I guess I should mention that with importing the CD, it means importing it into my iTunes, I have no other means to burn a CD, but import and burn. In fact, checking out the way this CD came into iTunes is as MEG audio.
Marta








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