DVD player won't play MP3

Pigman

Hi All!

My DVD player claims it can play MP3 files so after I bought it I stuck in a CDR full of tracks that I had handy but the machine couldn't read the disk. Is it just a case of me being lied to or do the files have to be saved on the disk in a particular kind of way for the machine to read them?

Chowmein

mabe you need to burn them on a DVD-R?

Michael Collins

What's the make of the DVD Player? Some Sony models will only play CD-RWs (or DVD-R) but it's very unlikely this would be the case if it plays mp3s

Pigman

Panasonic DVD RV-41

Also claims to play VCD and CDRWs but I can't get that working so far either!

tman

i reckon you should get your money back!
or try using different cd burning software... (esp if ur trying to make vcd's)

Michael Collins

That machine will play mp3s alright, not too sure about VCDs but if you say it says it i guess it must. CD-RW compatable too.

KdjaCL

HAs to be high qualtiy CD RW used in .

Panasonics are picky about the type of disc you use.

kdja

Mercury

Originally posted by Pigman
Panasonic DVD RV-41

Also claims to play VCD and CDRWs but I can't get that working so far either!

hmmm... my Sony player also makes the same claim. It's only after looking around fterwards that I discovered that it will only play commercially available VCDs, and not the ones that you burn yourself.....

Michael Collins

It's only after looking around fterwards that I discovered that it will only play commercially available VCDs, and not the ones that you burn yourself.....

Have you tried buring a vcd to a CD-RW? A lot of Sony systems won't read the home burned CD-Rs but will read the CD-RWs just fine.

Winters

My sony dvd player doesnt play CD-R's though i have been able to get it to. Ya kinda stick the disc in and press play until it reads it. the cd keeps jumping for a few min then it settles down and plays for 10min, then jumps for a sec and playes...... and so on.

I should try it with a CD-RW though. might work. The DVD player never said it would play CD-Rs so its luckey that i do get em working.

And DVD palyer will run VCD discs. I have a few and they run find. The DVD player was made to be compatable with the VCDs. I did make a CD-R into VCD but it didnt play as it was a CD-R

If anyone knows the best software for making CDs with please post a link. Im stuck with the HP crap cos the nero version i has doesnt work with 2k

thegills

DVD players that play MP3's are usually finicky about certain things such as;
1. The quality of the disk used
2. The folder structure. I think you can't have MP3's in the root directory, you must have folder names in the root, like David Gray - White Ladder for ex.
3. You must have only MP3 files on the disk.

Are you OK on these 3??
What does it say in the manual about MP3 playback??

sceptre

Originally posted by Winters
If anyone knows the best software for making CDs with please post a link. Im stuck with the HP crap cos the nero version i has doesnt work with 2k

(opening up a can of worms)

Nero is imho the best on the market. I've tried them all (and pretty much every version of them all over the past two years) - Fireburner, CDRWIN, CloneCD, WinOnCD, Discjuggler, Easy CD and all the odd ones. A few of the other pruducts have small advantages over Nero for specific things: Easy CD is stupid-proof, Discjuggler will copy any audio disc I've thrown at it, CloneCD will copy pretty much anything if you have a fully compatible burner (LiteOn & to a lesser extent Plextor), Fireburner has a tiny footprint.

I'm obviously referring to the full retail version of Nero, not that nasty bundled Express version. Updates are frequent, easy to get from their site, free and reliable. Buy it, get it whatever way you feel necessary. You won't be looking back.

tman

stomp's recordnow max is a pretty decent package, you should be able to find a 30 day trial if you google around a bit.
cdrwin is the daddy for making copies of cd's, definitely prefer it to clonecd