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Will CD-Rs and/or CD-RWs play in my 99 CD changer?

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Old 01-04-2002, 08:16 AM
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Will CD-Rs and/or CD-RWs play in my 99 CD changer?
Old 01-04-2002, 08:34 AM
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It doesn't play in my 99.5, but others have had success using different types of discs.

However, I've tried them all. But I do have one CD-R that someone else burned, so I think it may be the burner as opposed to the discs.
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CD-Rs- yes, if you're burning them right. CD-RWs- no.
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I've had no problem with CD-Rs in my 98.5, haven't tried CD-RW
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Default I've never had a problem w/CD-R's....(more)

I always burn my own disks for travelling and so forth, what I think matters is the way the disk has been recorded. I use Roxio's Easy CD Creator. Be sure that the CD is finalized once all music has been burned onto then, and the music itself has to be in .wav format, not .mp3, unless your system has a decoder built-in.
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I'm a newbie at this stuff. How do you "finalize" a CD? TIA
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Default During the final process in the software...

<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/26912/cd.jpg"></center><p>if you're using Roxio, not familiar with anything else. You get a dialog screen just before actually burning the disk, you must select 'finalize CD'.

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Thanks for the info
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