# Has anyone got a CD rom burner? Do the CD's realy play in your car? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 1, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-a-cd-rom-burner-do-the-cds-realy-play-in-your-car/24288 "2000-07-01T18:23:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Easy\_Tokyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71c47a/32.png) [@Easy\_Tokyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Easy_Tokyo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-a-cd-rom-burner-do-the-cds-realy-play-in-your-car/24288/1 "2000-07-01T18:23:54Z")
I’m tempted to try one to get songs off the web to play in traffic. But they seem to come in different formats, or at least “running lengths”. Have any experience with computer-made CDs? How about CD-RW? ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-a-cd-rom-burner-do-the-cds-realy-play-in-your-car/24288/2 "2000-07-01T18:26:33Z")
Yes, I have one, they work fine in my cd player in my car (Alpine CDA 7845) but some sony decks wont read them. No idea about the cd/rw. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-a-cd-rom-burner-do-the-cds-realy-play-in-your-car/24288/3 "2000-07-01T18:28:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > I’m tempted to try one to get songs off the web to play in traffic. > But they seem to come in different formats, or at least “running lengths”. > > Have any experience with computer-made CDs? > How about CD-RW? > \*\* This probably belongs in GQ, but I’ll answer the OP. Yes, they play in your car. The format is CD-a, I think but someone can clarify that. All CD burners will do it, though you might find finnicky CD players that’ll only play with audio-cd’s(rather than data cd’s), but that’s mostly in home-based units. -Sam ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-a-cd-rom-burner-do-the-cds-realy-play-in-your-car/24288/4 "2000-07-01T18:29:22Z")
CDRWs won’t work in an audio CD player unless it is one of those new ones made to read them. CDRs work about in about 80% of them. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-a-cd-rom-burner-do-the-cds-realy-play-in-your-car/24288/5 "2000-07-01T18:41:07Z")
mblackwell, I’ve never had any trouble with CD-r’s at all. They should play in quite a bit more than 80% of players. And I also found this on a home theater forum: > [@](#): > > Our Panasonic A110 WILL play CD-rw’s, but not CDR’s. Hope that helps. I had to convert some audio cd-r’s to cd-rw’s when I got this player. Neither the manual or Panasonic’s web page tell you it will play cd-rw’s but I know it will. (their 5 disc C220 also is the same way) As long ar you burn it in the proper format, it should play in most players. Oh, and if you want a recommendation for a burner, try a philips or a plextor. -Sam ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-a-cd-rom-burner-do-the-cds-realy-play-in-your-car/24288/6 "2000-07-01T18:46:11Z")
If you check Crutchfield, you’ll find that one CD player, Kenwood’s model, I believe, will even play burned CDs with only MP3 files on them. ---
**Author:** ![Jo3sh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@Jo3sh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jo3sh)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-a-cd-rom-burner-do-the-cds-realy-play-in-your-car/24288/7 "2000-07-01T18:49:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > If you check Crutchfield, you’ll find that one CD player, Kenwood’s model, I believe, will even play burned CDs with only MP3 files on them. > \*\* There’s another one, too - the Aiwa CDC-MP3. It costs about half as much. I have one on order, but they’re backordered. I have been quoted a delivery time of early or mid July. Seems like it has pretty nice features, too. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-a-cd-rom-burner-do-the-cds-realy-play-in-your-car/24288/8 "2000-07-01T22:19:48Z")
Just a small FYI: sometimes some people might forget to “close” the CD after burning, thus not allowing for a burned CD to play in a CD-ROM. ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-a-cd-rom-burner-do-the-cds-realy-play-in-your-car/24288/9 "2000-07-01T22:38:24Z")
Another thing, once you burn the CDR you can’t burn back over it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-a-cd-rom-burner-do-the-cds-realy-play-in-your-car/24288/10 "2000-07-01T23:09:52Z")
Unless you get a re-writeable CD rom burner and the right CD media. Ow, my brain hurts! ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-a-cd-rom-burner-do-the-cds-realy-play-in-your-car/24288/11 "2000-07-01T23:14:58Z")
Im pretty sure that the stereo won’t read RW cds. They are a special format. They do make cd writers that are cheap, around $100-110. The software they come with must support music cds. I see at the store they have blank cd’s. They state on them, ‘for music only’ must be seconds because data cd’s must be perfect. Data cd’s are around a buck now. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-a-cd-rom-burner-do-the-cds-realy-play-in-your-car/24288/12 "2000-07-01T23:42:09Z")
Plain data type CD-R disks play fine in my Sony 4750 car deck (it’s in a truck actually but…) They will not play in my Sony DVD/CD player. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2000, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-a-cd-rom-burner-do-the-cds-realy-play-in-your-car/24288/13 "2000-07-02T00:12:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > Im pretty sure that the stereo won’t read RW cds. They are a special format. > > They do make cd writers that are cheap, around $100-110. The software they come with must support music cds. > > I see at the store they have blank cd’s. They state on them, ‘for music only’ must be seconds because data cd’s must be perfect. Data cd’s are around a buck now. > \*\* Handy, like I said, neither I, or anyone else that I know who burns CD’s has run into very much trouble. RW’s work fine, and sometimes exclusively in some home audio units. ‘for music only’ CDs are pretty much a way to make an extra buck off of the consumers. Data CDs work just as good. -Sam ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2000, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-got-a-cd-rom-burner-do-the-cds-realy-play-in-your-car/24288/14 "2000-07-02T04:25:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > I see at the store they have blank cd’s. They state on them, ‘for music only’ must be seconds because data cd’s must be perfect. Data cd’s are around a buck now. > \*\* Those CD’s are for use in stand alone Audio Recorders. The stand alone recorders can not use normal cd-r’s because they don’t have the tarrif attached to the price.