Various possible reasons:
•You recorded it on a CD-RW disk. Most newer computer drives read these fine but very few audio players will read them at all.
•You recorded the CD as a data CD or as a multi-session CD. Audio players will only read audio CD's, and even on audio CD's, they will only recognize the first "session". Computer drives, on the other hand, can easily read data CD's, and can read CD's recorded in multiple sessions.
•If neither of the above is your problem, it may just be that the brand of CD-R disk you are using does not work well with your audio player. This happens sometimes and is quite normal. Try a different brand and see how that turns out.
•Another thing to try is to burn at a slower speed. Try burning a disk at 1x (rather than 2x or 6x or whatever speed your burner drive supports). Sometimes audio CD's burned at slower speeds will work in audio players while disks burned at higher speeds won't. It's been said that the laser encoding is somehow "clearer" when burning at slower speeds and this helps audio players, which often have a problem with home-burned CD's, to cope with the disks.
•If your CD won't play at all, this probably isn't your problem but another tip is to try and record all your audio CD's in "disk at once" mode, meaning the whole disk is burned in one pass without turning off the laser. Audio players like disks burned like this better. If you burn the disk "track at a time" the laser is turned off between each track, and audio players often cannot find any track other than the first one on such disks. Although, if you just start them playing at the first track and leave them, they'll usually play all the way through fine.
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