First, is your CD player able to play MP3s? If not, you need to be sure you are burning audio CDs rather than data CDs full of MP3 files. And in that case, I prefer ripping my vinyl to WAV files to avoid the loss of data the compression in MP3s does. Plus, I've been copying vinyl to CDs since I did it on an old Win98 machine that had trouble converting MP3s at all, much less on the fly.

Second, I would avoid multisession burning and rip all the tracks you want for your compilation before starting to burn your CD.

I am not clear if you are using Nero to burn the CDs. If so, when you are starting, select "Audio CD" as your project type. Add all the tracks you want to the layout, then burn in one session, letting Nero close the CD at the end.

See if that works and if the CD plays in regular players.

Anne

Not quite sure just where and what all I had been doing wrong but your advice put everything right. One thing I had wrong was that the files had to be MP3s. I'll be silently thanking you every time I kick out another good CD.

Great! I'm glad I could help.