I'm having a little trouble with my old HP. I've had no problems in
the past burning audio, but now I do after reformatting and
reinstalling all my programs.

I'm trying to burn MP3s to audio CDs (I let the burning program do the
conversion, I don't first do MP3-WAV or anything). I'm using Roxio
Easy CD Creator, and can burn data discs with no problems at all, but
when I try burning audio, I get no errors, and I get no sound when I
go to my CD player to try and play it (the tracks are there, the
correct time is there, but there is no sound!!!) At first I thought
it was because maybe the disc was labeled incorrectly and I was using
CD-RW or something, but I wasn't... I even tried multiple different
brands of CD-RW.

So I thought maybe it was my software... I went and downloaded
CDBurnerXP Pro (http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ - which by the way is an
awesome looking program). This program gave me errors when I was
trying to burn Audio (Roxio did not give any errors), but again, data
burned with no problem. The error message from CDBXPP was something
with "Power Calibration" in it. I've looked around and everyone says
this is related to bad CDs, but I've tried different CDs and have
burned 2 data CDs from the same pile too!

I opened the case and noticed the CD-burner had no audio cable coming
from the sound card, (it was going to DVD instead). So I unplugged it
from the DVD and plugged it into the CD-R. No luck... (I think this
is audio-out from the CD-player anyway, not audio-in for burning).

What the heck is going on? Why can't I burn audio? Anyone? Bueller?
Bueller?

Check whether you can play a normal audio disk.This sounds as though it has
nothing to do with your burning but is your fresh instal which is lacking.
Check
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"Joe" <joehatesspam@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Could be your CD player will not play CDRW disks. Can you record audio
successfully on CDR disks?

I will check to see if we can play a normal audio cd. Assume I can
play an audio CD. What next step would you take?

~Joe

"John Rampling" <j.rampling@NOSPAM.com> wrote in message news:<JpC3d.138$5y3.42@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net>...
My bad. I did not use any CD-RW discs. I used all CD-R discs. I
tried multiple kinds of CD-R disks, differnet brands, etc, but nothing
worked.

Anyone else out there have any idea why I cannot burn CD-R Audio
discs, but am able to burn data-discs?

~Joe

If your computer doesn't play any audio at all either from the CD burner or
your DVD go to Volume Control (Start > All Programs > Accessories >
Entertainment) make sure Mute buttons are unchecked - in particular, the
Main Volume Control and Wave.