I'd try two things. Change the brand of media you use, and burn at a slower speed. Both have helped me with issues with burned audio CD's in the past.

 

Thanks for the tips JohnWill. I will give them a try. I guess I will first try to burn slower and if that doesn't work then change media.

 

I'd go as slow as possible, normally 4x or 8x with modern drives, and see if that has an effect.

 

Thanks again!

 

I have similar issues (with a Bose car audio system), its a combination of both media and speed as suggested above.

The laser in the car stereo is not of optimum power and/or wavelength to get the best reflection from burned media, which are quite different in reflectivity to original pressed Audio CDs. To the extent that some players I have seen will not recognise the burned CDs at all.

 

Let us know if that helps the situation.

 

Another thing to try, if you haven't already. Use CD-R's, instead of CD-RW discs. I always use CD-R, but I've had friends burn CD-RW's and encounter the same problems you're describing.

 

If I remember correctly a CD RW would not play in my car at all. Only CD R's would play.

On the flip side I have about a 5 year old sony DVD player of what was then quite high quality and the only CD's it would recognize were the RW's

 

To butt in to this thread; about CD burning speeds.

I'm unsure about this (but I have a few friends who say this is so).
They say that if they burn at too slow a speed (on modern DVD/CD RWs & media) that errors can occur.

I pretty much burn at 16x, never get any errors.

 

alot of the GM cars that first came out with CD players have trouble reading CDRs & CDRWs. its touch and go with them