Why is my windows media player not burning any of my blank Cds

problem solved, i hope  !!   look at the far right top of your windows media player screen.  right below "sync"  click on the small square box.    you have several options.  for music it should be on "audio".    i had not made any cd's for months and somehow my screen was on "data".

once i clicked on audio cd, it burned just like it once did.   let me know if this works for you.

I have been having pretty much the same problem. When I'm in Windows Media Player I can't burn and audio disk for any thing. I put the blank disk in, and it is showing thats a blnk disk is there, I make my burn list and click the start burn, and it will act like it is starting to burn each track but after a minute on the track I get that little red ERROR and it goes to the next track and does the same. I have Ruined alot of disks cuz of this. Now I can burn a data disk but nothing through Media Player, Media Now, or Roxio. I need Help I can't even back up my computer on disk right now because of this.

Burn an audio CD

If you want to make a standard music CD that will play in nearly any CD player, choose the Audio CD option.

As you burn an audio CD, Windows Media Player makes temporary copies of the WMA and MP3 files in your burn list, converts the copies to another format (known as PCM), and then saves the converted copies to the disc. Here's how to burn an audio CD:

1. Click the Start button , click All Programs, and then click Windows Media Player. If the Player is currently open and you’re in Now Playing mode, click the Switch to Library button in the upper-right corner of the Player.
2. In the Player Library, click the Burn tab, click the Burn options button , and then click Audio CD (this is the default choice).
3. Insert a blank CD-R disc into your CD burner. If the AutoPlay dialog box appears, close it. If your computer has more than one CD drive, click the drive you want to use in the navigation pane.
4. If necessary, click the Clear list button to remove all items from the previous burn list.
5. Find the items in your Player Library that you want to burn to the audio CD. For example, you can search for a particular album, browse for individual songs, or locate a playlist.
6. To create a burn list, drag items from the details pane (the pane in the middle of the Player Library) to the list pane (the pane on the right side of the Player Library).
7. If you want to change the order of the songs in the burn list, drag a song up or down in the list.
8. If you want to remove a song from the burn list, right-click the song, and then click Remove from list.

Tip

• Don't worry—removing an item from the burn list doesn't delete it from your Player Library or your computer.

9. When you're satisfied with the list, click Start burn. Burning a disc might take several minutes to complete. If you have more songs in your burn list than will fit on one audio CD, you'll have the option to burn the remaining items to a second blank CD.

Note

• Because Windows Media Player doesn't support the CD-Text standard, the audio CDs that you burn don't include the media information from your original WMA or MP3 files. This means that if you burn an audio CD containing songs from multiple albums and you try to play that CD on another computer, the other computer might not be able to automatically display the names of the songs on the disc.

Burn a data CD or data DVD

If you want to make a disc that can hold several hours of music (as opposed to an audio CD that only holds about 80 minutes of music), choose the Data CD or DVD option. You can also add picture and video files to data discs.

Unlike when you burn an audio CD, Windows Media Player doesn't convert your files to another format before it saves them to a data disc. Because the files remain in their compressed state, you can fit more items onto a disc, there is no loss of quality due to format conversion, and all media information in the files is retained.

There is one significant disadvantage of burning a data CD or DVD instead of an audio CD, however. The CD or DVD player that you use to play the data CD or DVD must be capable of playing the file types you put on the disc. For example, if all of your songs are in the WMA format and your car CD player only supports MP3 files, you’ll need to use another program to convert them to the MP3 format, add the MP3 files to your Player Library, and then use the Player to burn them to a data CD.

1. Click the Start button , click All Programs, and then click Windows Media Player. If the Player is currently open and you’re in Now Playing mode, click the Switch to Library button in the upper-right corner of the Player.
2. In the Player Library, click the Burn tab, click the Burn options button , and then click Data CD or DVD.
3. Insert a blank disc into your CD or DVD burner. If the AutoPlay dialog box appears, close it. If your computer has more than one CD or DVD drive, click the drive you want to use in the navigation pane.
4. If necessary, click the Clear list button to remove all items from the previous burn list.
5. Find the items in your Player Library that you want to copy to the disc. For example, you can search for a particular album, browse for individual songs from different albums, or locate a playlist that you previously created.
6. To create a burn list, drag items from the details pane (the pane in the middle of the Player Library) to the list pane (the pane on the right side of the Player Library).
7. If you want to change the position of an item in the burn list, drag the item up or down in the list.
8. If you want to remove an item from the burn list, right-click the item, and then click Remove from list.

Tip

• Don't worry—removing an item from the burn list doesn't delete it from your Player Library or your computer.

9. When you're satisfied with the list, click Start burn. Burning a disc might take several minutes to complete. If you have more items in your burn list than will fit on one disc, you'll have the option to burn the remaining items to a second disc.

Note

• A data DVD is different than a DVD-Video disc (the kind of DVD you get when you rent a movie, for example).

Note

• Unauthorized use and/or duplication of copyrighted material may be a violation of copyright law in the United States and/or other countries/regions. Copyrighted material includes, but is not limited to, software, documentation, graphics, lyrics, photographs, clipart, animations, movie and video clips, as well as sound and music (including when MP3 encoded). Violation of U.S. and international copyright laws may subject you to significant civil and/or criminal penalties.

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