Help! Can't burn audio cds anymore.

Well I've wasted enough cds on this problem. On my Windows Vista
laptop I can no longer make an audio cd. I was able to do this about 3
weeks ago. I don't have a problem with data cd's or dvd's, just audio
cd's that will play anywhere. I've tried different makes of cd's, I've
used WMP & Roxio EMC 10, and I've tried burning at different speeds
and I get the same result. I always get the very generic error message
that files can't be written to the disk but nothing on the reason why.
If I can make a data disks why not audio? I'm using a Toshiba laptop
and whatever CD/DVD burner it came with. I'm not home at the moment so
I can't elaborate but that all seems irrelevant at this point anyway.
Does anyone have any ideas on this? I've got a few more cd's I can
waste.

Jabbo wrote:

Well I've wasted enough cds on this problem. On my Windows Vista
laptop I can no longer make an audio cd. I was able to do this about 3
weeks ago. I don't have a problem with data cd's or dvd's, just audio
cd's that will play anywhere. I've tried different makes of cd's, I've
used WMP & Roxio EMC 10, and I've tried burning at different speeds
and I get the same result. I always get the very generic error message
that files can't be written to the disk but nothing on the reason why.
If I can make a data disks why not audio? I'm using a Toshiba laptop
and whatever CD/DVD burner it came with. I'm not home at the moment so
I can't elaborate but that all seems irrelevant at this point anyway.
Does anyone have any ideas on this? I've got a few more cd's I can
waste.

I'm wondering about the material you're trying to burn. Maybe some
sort of copyright thing?

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On Thu, 22 May 2008 09:31:19 -0700 (PDT), Jabbo
wrote:

Well I've wasted enough cds on this problem. On my Windows Vista
laptop I can no longer make an audio cd. I was able to do this about 3
weeks ago. I don't have a problem with data cd's or dvd's, just audio
cd's that will play anywhere. I've tried different makes of cd's, I've
used WMP & Roxio EMC 10, and I've tried burning at different speeds
and I get the same result. I always get the very generic error message
that files can't be written to the disk but nothing on the reason why.
If I can make a data disks why not audio? I'm using a Toshiba laptop
and whatever CD/DVD burner it came with. I'm not home at the moment so
I can't elaborate but that all seems irrelevant at this point anyway.
Does anyone have any ideas on this? I've got a few more cd's I can
waste.

Does the DVD-RW recognize the CD-R when loaded? I had similar
problem with audio and the cause was the CD-R media sensor in
the DVD writer. It would recognize DVD media and intermittently
sense CD-R media. I could read data CDs but couldn't write
audio CDs.

The media sensor determines the media type by sensing frequency.
It is possible to write/read DVDs and still have problems with the
CDs.

Luckily my PC was still in warranty and got a DVD writer replacement.

Hope this helps,

Otoe