I can't burn music to CD's

This has been going on a long time. I have changed media players, I have 3 cd/dvd players to use and lots of different kinds of disks that say CD-R The process always looks like it is going fine. I see that it is burning and at the end it says it was successful, but the music is not on the disk. If I just open the disk to view the files it shows a list of the songs. Later I get that message that I have music waiting to be burned. I've tried using that....same results

Does the computer list the songs first and actually burn them later? I don't know why the list of songs shows up. I put the CD into my regular CD player on my stereo and there is nothing there.

I've tried copy and paste. Doesn't do it.

Do I need to format the disks in a special way? Sometimes when I put the blank CD into the CD player it will say that there is no disk or that I need to put a record-able disk in the player. I just don't get it,.

Welcome to the forum. How are you writing them to create if you just copy files you can play them on a PC but not a player you need to use for writing software and choose create music CD

Thanks for the quick reply. This problem has been making me crazy. I have downloaded the software you suggested and when try it later today.

I wondered if maybe my burned CD's were only good on a computer. If I click on "play"the music plays, but I always wondered if it was coming from the disk or my music file. I'll let you know how it goes.

I just sat down for a minute and thought I would try to burn a disk. The program is only looking at the CD player inside my computer. That one doesn't work. I have an external cd player plugged into my computer, but I didn't see a place to point the program to it. So it is saying No disk.

Fireberd - I marked this one as unsolved since I still can't burn Cd's. I went back and read your instructions and I started converting some of my music to .wav and downloading some new music as .wav. Most of the time the downloading as .wav would fail . I have also downloaded the CDBurnerXP. It seems wonderful.
I actually thought it was happening once today. I take time off from this, but I am back at it now. Music is so important to my life that I need to master this. I have the music I want on my computer, but I like to be able to share with friends via a disk. I make the art for the cover and print out song information. I started getting more into liner notes and cover art because I'm selling a lot of vintage albums and I research. anyway, today I started to burn an album that is in .wav format. It showed progress (photo attached) and at the end says it is successful, but the songs were not on the disk. You said to use R disks. The program says I should use re-writeable disks and sometimes says not enough room...do I want to erase...and I say yes...maybe I'm erasing my recordings???? I can't attach