CD's burned from iTunes no longer work in my car...
 

I heard that Apple changed their formatting so that burned CD's wont be read by all non-Apple CD players in cars.

I also heard there is a conversion program that will convert/burn into a common format that's read by normal CD players: anyone recommend program??

Damn Apple...

You "heard?" That sounds like complete hogwash to me.

That makes no sense.

An audio cd is an audio cd.

I just burned a disc a month or so ago and it works fine.

And I always stay up to date.

Are you saying you burned one that does not work or that you heard it won't work?

no, all CD's I've burned in the last 6-8 months from my iTunes will not play in any of CD players: 928, 944TS, 911, garage, home theater.

Mac or pc? It's possible on a Mac that you upgraded
Your iTunes or system software and it changed the burning preferences in the iTunes program..... Check tout itunes prefs and make sure you're burning an "audio cd." SmileWavy

I wasn't aware apple made car CD players... never heard of such a thing... and I keep pretty up to date on such things.

Yes, it happened to me with older "protected aac" .m4p files (I think). Some CD players won't play a CD burnt from itunes with these files. At one point, you could 'upgrade' these to unprotected - m4a & then have your way with the files. Don't quote me on all of this, but I think that this is your problem.

Ian

exactly Ian> I've upgraded itunes a few times, didn't solve any issues.

Sony, Onkyo, Pioneer CD players with RW capability: none read the newer discs. I haven't tried in 6 months though: tired of throwing good CD's away.

A standard cd player is looking for .aiff

When you burn a DRM audio file to aiff it kills the DRM.

Mark,

pop bad disc in and tell us what the file format/extension is.

Another reason to hate the evil music overlord. I convert any purchases to wavs immediately just to give me a file that I can do anything with.

Ian

one word:

Tunebite

IIRC, you can copy your music to CD via iTunes and convert to a different format - ie: MP3.

-Z-man

Last year the gf got a third party .mp3 player and a $25 gift card for iTunes. She was all excited about having something "new and cool"(like all her friends), and ready to start purchasing music as a habit.
1). So we got the player configured, and she downloads songs from the Apple website. Hmmm, she thought she had only selected only a couple to purchase, but it used up the entire card.
Mabye she made a mistake. Mabye the website needed to be more clear. I don't know. Whatever. Next.

2). The dang songs won't play on her new player. I go to the Apple website and they are listed only as "Apple media files" or whatnot.
Hmmm, it didn't even disclose they were in .mp4 format.

3). Now she's pissed and almost in tears. She's ready to throw the .mp3 player (and the computer) in the trash after we just wasted several hours and $25 on nothing, junk, crap.
She wanted to purchase and listen to the music, but she can't purchase and listen to the music.


Too bad Apple, you lost another customer.
She wastes hundreds of dollars on books. Probably would have done the same with iTunes.

Me?
Long ago when Quicktimetask kept re-installing itself hogging memory, and Apple insisted on DRM nonsense I was outta there.

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.CDA file...I'll plop in a fresh disc today & see if anything's changed...probably 4-5 new iTunes updates since then.

Mark

My 2008 BMW has issues with cd's, even those that are factory. I use an iPod interface but it still is a mystery the dealer never solved.

It's probably your media. IIRC some older cd players had a problem with certain disks.

I can't remember the whole story but some disks look blue, silver, gold I can't remember which one is the most compatible.

Try a different brand of CD.

This is why I use 8-tracks.....

+1 I have had burned CDs (Windows/Unix) rejected by car CD changers. I now use basic Memorex 700MB CDR and never have problems.

Why not grab what you want from the newsgroups as mp3 files, burn about a hundred or so onto a CD-ROM and use a mp3 player/changer? Or you can put them onto an iPhone and use any of several mp3 player apps?

I tried a Memorex this am on a fresh itunes update: works like a champ! :)