Burn MP3 CD's with WMP11 or Instant Burn?

Hi Everyone,
I seem to be missing something simple here. I'm running WinXP SP3 and
am trying to burn an MP3 CD using WMP11. I've read in these forums
that all I have to do is select "Data CD" from the options in the Burn
menu, drag a list of files from Explorer into the right hand pane in
WMP11, then click on "Burn". However when I do this, I immediately
get a message beside each track saying "An Error Occurred." Right.

I tried another suggestion here using Explorer. I selected all the
files and right-clicked on "Send To" to the CD-R drive. "Instant
Burn" appeared beside the drive letter so Windows seems to have known
what to do about it. Unfortunately this also failed; I kept getting
prompted to put a blank CD in the drive over and over again as I
pulled the blank out and put it back in again

As a sanity check I tried to burn the MP3 CD using Nero Express. This
worked fine with the same blank disc.

My rationale for doing all this is that I want to get away from using
Nero. Their upgrade path went beyond bloatware long ago and I'm
having more and more trouble getting support for the older version I
have. I figured if Nero could burn MP3 CDs, WMP11, or even "Instant
Burn" in the Explorer should be able to do it.

Given that WMP11 and Explorer both failed, it seems like there's some
kind of limitation in Windows at work here. I'm trying to keep this as
simple as possible. I don't use any playlist or other index files.
The CDs I've burned with Nero have just the MP3 files on them. Every
MP3 player I've tried with these CDs has played them OK. I've found
that as long as I'm careful with file naming and MP3 tags, any player
can play these tracks in the right order, or random if I want to, etc,
etc.

That's all I can think of right now. An old copy of Nero Vision can
burn MP3 files to a blank CD, but WMP11 and/or Explorer-Instant Burn
can't. Anyone have any idea what might be going on here?

Thanks,
Big Ben Alcobra

Instant burn isn't a feature I recognise from windows (explorer) menus

According to a quick search engine bash, it's a feature of Cyberlink's
CD burning software
http://www.cyberlink.com/products/in...iew_en_US.html

I'd check your PC for that (and uninstall it if you don't use it) as
it may be interfering with WMP's ability to burn disks through windows
OS functions.

Roxio's CD burning software does something similar - if you have (or
also have) that, the Drag to Disk feature of Roxio breaks WMP in the
same way. You'd want to disable or uninstall those products too, if
that sounds likely.

HTH
Cheers - Neil

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:49:32 -0800 (PST), Big Ben Alcobra
<benalcobra@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi Everyone,
>I seem to be missing something simple here. I'm running WinXP SP3 and
>am trying to burn an MP3 CD using WMP11. I've read in these forums
>that all I have to do is select "Data CD" from the options in the Burn
>menu, drag a list of files from Explorer into the right hand pane in
>WMP11, then click on "Burn". However when I do this, I immediately
>get a message beside each track saying "An Error Occurred." Right.
>
>I tried another suggestion here using Explorer. I selected all the
>files and right-clicked on "Send To" to the CD-R drive. "Instant
>Burn" appeared beside the drive letter so Windows seems to have known
>what to do about it. Unfortunately this also failed; I kept getting
>prompted to put a blank CD in the drive over and over again as I
>pulled the blank out and put it back in again
>
>As a sanity check I tried to burn the MP3 CD using Nero Express. This
>worked fine with the same blank disc.
>
>My rationale for doing all this is that I want to get away from using
>Nero. Their upgrade path went beyond bloatware long ago and I'm
>having more and more trouble getting support for the older version I
>have. I figured if Nero could burn MP3 CDs, WMP11, or even "Instant
>Burn" in the Explorer should be able to do it.
>
>Given that WMP11 and Explorer both failed, it seems like there's some
>kind of limitation in Windows at work here. I'm trying to keep this as
>simple as possible. I don't use any playlist or other index files.
>The CDs I've burned with Nero have just the MP3 files on them. Every
>MP3 player I've tried with these CDs has played them OK. I've found
>that as long as I'm careful with file naming and MP3 tags, any player
>can play these tracks in the right order, or random if I want to, etc,
>etc.
>
>That's all I can think of right now. An old copy of Nero Vision can
>burn MP3 files to a blank CD, but WMP11 and/or Explorer-Instant Burn
>can't. Anyone have any idea what might be going on here?
>
>Thanks,
>Big Ben Alcobra
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