I have downloaded 3 songs on to cd, but they will not play on anything except pc, I have never had a problem in the past doing this, where the hell am i going wrong.

Did you close the CD ? Its a burning option, I dont mean the CD draw.

Does it show up with the 3 track and wont play them ?

Yes pc finalized disc, it shows up on pc with 3 songs, but when put in car or hifi, it says no disc. I have converted it from mp3 to wav but will not play in car or hifi

Need to make sure you are burning an AUDIO cd and not a DATA CD. Which program are you using?

Am using freestudio to convert, and using wmplayer in vista to burn them to disc.

download a programme called cdburnerxp its free and its spot on gives you the option to make sure you burn as audio it does sound like you have burnt it as a data cd.

^^ This. Ive used that software loads. WMPlayer is pooh.

Thank you will give it a try now.

Is wma the correct format to convert from mp3 for it to play on hifi.

You shouldnt need to convert it first. WMA wont play from a CD.

The program will convert it to a raw audio file for you and burn it to CD. When you put the finished CD in the PC you shouldnt see any files on it, they are hidden and encoded so that only CD players can read it.

Make sure you are making an AUDIO CD and dont convert any files first.

They are in mp3 format on pc, that is what i downloaded them as.

You just load up CDburnerXP, create new AUDIO CD, drag the mp3s into the playlist, press burn and it does the rest. You dont need to convert anything, it will do it for you.

WMA is Windows failed audio format and it sounds terrible.

Thanks for all your help, it worked a treat.

Thank you.