Hello all, I have recently been sent a couple of CDs full of music from a friend. They were cheap discs - verbatim - and I'm not sure how they were copied. They play fine but I'm now trying to make another copy of the disc and I'm having trouble. I have tried my USUAL method using Roxio: create cd image on hard drive and then create cd from image. I have also tried converting the songs to WAVE files and then burning the CD from those. It seems to copy fine but when I put it in a cd player the first song plays ok and then the rest are just crackly or silence with either method.

The music is not copyrighted so I know it can't be that. The WAVE files I have created play fine on my PC so why can't I burn them to disc? Will it make a difference whether I burn "track at once" or "disc at once"? Any help would be appreciated!What version of the Windows Media Player do ou have? You can "rip" the songs onto your COMPUTER, and just copy the songs onto a new CD. (Once ripped, they will go to the My Music folder) Keep in touch...

[glb]Flame[/glb]THANKS for replying - I have Windows Media Player 10. I just tried it on a cheap data disc (because I'm tired of wasting good cds) and it burned ok at a very slow speed and would play fine on my computer but it wouldn't play in a cd player. So I tried burning to a high quality audio disc and it got halfway through the burn and then stopped saying that it couldn't burn to this disc and I should clean it or try a different brand. It's a brand new TDK audio disc. I don't know what to try now. Could it be because the disc my friend sent me is a data rather than audio disc or because the disc was burned from MP3s or should these things not matter? I'm tearing my hair out.Well...... Try ripping the songs from the good CDs onto your computer (using Windows Media player), and they will be saved in the my music folder.... After, use Roxio to burn the files onto a good CD. If that doesn't WORK, then the songs MIGHT just be "bad".

[glb]Flame[/glb]Is your stereo even able to play MP3s?  If not then you won't be able to rip, copy and play.  You'd have to use Roxio's disk copier feature.