Why can't I burn a CD???

[macgirl89]

I tried burning an album to a CD using Finder. I dragged the files to the folder and clicked "Burn." Track 1 was going OK; it completed burning and then was "verifying." After that, it stopped burning. I was wondering why it didn't burn the other tracks but then thought maybe it really did because I was doing something else also at the time. Then I try putting it in a CD player: it won't play and there's only the first track available.

Two questions:

1) Do I need to highlight all the tracks before I click "Burn" so that it burns all of them instead of just one?

2) Why didn't the first track play in a CD player? Do you think it's because it's a .FLAC file? (I thought .FLAC were CD-quality anyway.) Would a .mp3 file work?

 

[iShater]

Sounds like you brunt a data CD, where all the files are stored in a single data track. That wouldn't play in a CD player unless the player can read data files, and most likely those files should be .mp3 or WAV.

 

[GGJstudios]

Convert .flac files to .mp3 using Max, then import and burn the songs using iTunes.

 

[macgirl89]

Thanks, guys!

I'm gonna burn the CD using iTunes now, but I have a dumb question. How do I make the tracks in the right order in iTunes? I always thought they automatically went in the correct order if the track numbers were entered in "Get Info" (which they are)...

 

[iShater]

You can drag them around in the play list and put them in the order you want.