Other notes of interest:
Windows Media Player will play the CD, but winamp will not.I'm rather confused at the disparity between WMP and Winamp.
If I put the CD into my FreeBSD box, and try to play it using the command line tool 'cdcontrol', or my custom CDplayer written in Python, it works.
I have tried with and without the "finalise" CD option. CD volume on the computer is not muted and the volume is maxed. The PS2 and the boombox play music CDs that I have copied CD-to-CD or burned from an image. I have never tried a burned CD in my CD player in the car, as I've only recently gotten a car with a CD Player.
In the end, if I can't solve this problem, I'll go buy a car stereo that will read MP3s from a CD. I'd rather save a few bucks though and just use the one I've got.
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It just occured to me to mention that I've verified the MP3s are good. I can play those on any mp3 playing device (PDA, computer, MP3 jukebox and MP3 portable) that I own.
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