My easy cd creator came with my philips JR24cdrw. I have no problem making data cd's. I downloaded some oldies music and tried to make a music cd with Windows Media Player 7.01 and it doesn't see my burner. I am a complete newby at burning cd's Is it because they are protecting a copyright? Where do you get music that is not copyrighted? I want to get these old songs to play for my 5 year old grandaughter. I have an emachine 800MHz with a 2.0 gb hard drive and 56k modem and 256 ram. I went to Roxio and to window help. They talk about a fix that came out for Windows 2000 but I have ME. My cd burner will copy cds and I was able to make data cd's and with the easy cd creator I also made a small cd with wave sounds from my files. My burner is plugged into the usb in front of my computer. I even downloaded Window beta 9 player knowing that it could only be uninstalled by restore point. I kept it long enough to find out it didn't see my burner either and then I restored to the day before. Also as you can tell I need some basic instructions for burning cd's. LoL. Please help. I read computing net just about every day and I have used the search at the top and I haven't been able to find the answer to my problem. I keep my computer tuned up with Trev's How to run well and have norton anti virus and adaware and spybot and the "nasties" and msconfig is set at the minimum and I used Sygate firewall.. Usually have no problems thanks to all I have learned by reading other peoples posts.My Computer device manager shows no problems. Fix it Utilites finds no problems. I really want to be able to make some music cd's. Can anyone help me?

What form are the songs in, what extension ? MP3 ? Didnt quite understand question, you use Easy CD creator to burn the CD then unable to play using WMP correct ? Does the burner CDR play normal CD's ok ? Do you create an MP3 disk or one compatible with Cd players ? Try to isolate if its a burner issue or WMP or Roxio CD create issue. I use all 3 with no problems.

Programs that come with hardware such as a burner are often not the full program. Some of the functions are disabled and to get the full program you would have to update and that costs money. The full version of Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum is over $80. I doubt you need the full version though. There are loads of free programs that will do what you want. What version do you have ? to find out, open the program then click HELP - ABOUT. Then report back for a more detailed reply. I'm not sure where Windows Media Player comes into things ??? If you have music files on your PC as mp3 files then you would use Easy CD to burn them to disc as music files, Windows Media Player has nothing to do with it. If you want to copy music to your PC to burn your own compilation from several different records, then I would suggest using Musicmatch Jukebox to put the files to your hard drive as mp3's. I read Windows Media Player will allow you to copy music to your PC as .wma files but not to play on another PC. The files have some sort of code that stops them being used on a different player... it an anti-share thing. As mp3 files, these can be played on any PC. I have Win ME, Easy CD Creator, Nero, Music match and all work without a 'fix it' patch. Some CD's do have programs to stop them being copied. If the CD's are older than 2 or 3 years then I doubt this would be the case. Nearly all music is copyrighted but there is a free program that will let you download music for free.... www.kazaalite.com Kazaalite works great but you may wish to learn about avoiding computer virii before you think of using such a program. Although you are looking for music that is not copyrighted, most stuff you find with kazaalite will be pop & chart music which is copyrighted. Sorry this reply is fragmented. See the following .... http://www.computing.net/security/wwwboard/forum/3325.html response number 4

Hi drdork and michael2. Thankyou for responding so quickly. easy cd creator version 5.03. I created cd by using my own cd. It copied it and I can play it on any player. The music I downloaded from a ladies site on line won't be accepted by my burner. I guess I need to learn how to download music and learn where to put it. The songs are from way back in the forties and fifties and I right clicked on them and sent them to my desktop and then I put them in c/my music. When I tried to burn them I got the error message E8004139a IDispach error #4506 and E80070057: the parameter is Incorrect. When I right click on the file the music is in and select properties it says wav opens with windows media player. when I select the summary tab it says audio format mpeg-layer3. I never downloaded music before. Michael2 will you send the link for music jukebox and direct me to any other links to learn these basics? I thought MP3 was a music player system like cd or cassette or record. Lol I would like to get music jukebox and kazaalite Thank you both of you for trying to help me

musicmatch jukebox free version Use this to put CD's onto your hard drive, it saves them as mp3's. www.musicmatch.com www.kazaalite.com Use this to download music from other peoples computers via the internet to your own computer as mp3's. You just use it to search for titles or artists and you will find pictures, text files, music and video's. Over 700 million in total. For info on file share programs, see... http://www.slyck.com DO NOT INSTALL KAZAA !!!! It's bad news- full of spyware and bugs. Kazaalite is the same program with the spyware removed or disabled. HOWEVER ! DO NOT OPEN ANY FILE WITHOUT VIRUS CHECKING FIRST !!!! You can save the music to just about anywhere you like on the computer. For now, if you right click on an empty part of the desk top and select NEW - FOLDER this will give you somewhere to store new downloads till you are happy that it will not get lost on your PC. You can right click this new folder and rename it NEW DOWNLOADS or anything you like. This is an extract from an E-mail I sent someone. I'll copy and paste it to save time typing it up.... CD is a pre-recorded disc, like a music CD that you would buy. Cost of a chart album $15. CD-R (recordable)is a blank disc that you can record onto (burn). Once recorded, it can't be erased. This will play on a stereo or PC. Cost around 50 cents each. CDRW (re-recordable)is also bought blank, but you can record onto it and record over it over a thousand times or more. Most stereo's can't play CDRW's. Cost around $1.50 each. As for CD drives... CD-rom drive will read CD's, CD-R'S and CDRW's but can't record onto them. CD-R drive (if you can buy them) will allow you to record onto a CD-R & CDRW disc but will not allow you to record over that disc ie it does not have the erase ability. CDRW drive can do all of the above and wipe clean a CDRW if it has stuff on it that you want erasing. CDRW/DVD is a drive that will do all of the above but will also play DVD disc's. CDRW/DVD-R will do all the above but will also allow recording onto a DVD-R. I don't know if you can buy CDRW/DVDRW's yet. If you record (burn) music on to a CD-R as a music file, it can be played on a stereo & computer. You can fit around 74 minutes of music on one disc. If you record the music as a data file (mp3) the disc will not play on a stereo (only on a computer) but the advantage is, you can fit around 10 hours of music on a single disc (200 single records). I have 5 CD-R's where the music is stored as mp3's.... that's around 1,200 records in total. Each CD-R is at least 650MB in storage size. You can fit over 5,000 100kb jpg's per CD-R. You can fit about 15 music video's per CD-R with the quality similar to the TV. These figures are impressive.

Thankyou michael2 Your post was very informative. I will get musicmatch and kazaalite and thankyou for the virus warning. I'll let you know how it works out. Thankyou so much Evie