Not sure if this is the right forum for my question but I'll take a stab.

It has been a long time, perhaps even a decade, since I burned a CD, and at that time I had no problem with it, it was easy as falling out of bed.

But no more.

My wife recorded a Christmas CD (I'll post more about that later elsewhere) and although it's online we wanted to have a single CD to play in the stereo downstairs in the living room.

So far I have destroyed 10 CD discs using four or five different computers running either Windows Media player or an older program like Cakewalk pyro to just try and burn a simple audio CD.

I've done it a million times in the past.

But now it fails every time.

Some of the computers are the same ones that I used beforehand.

I will pull the mp3s into Windows Media player, line them up, it will say preparing CD for burn, I will see it "preparing"all the tracks for burn and then when it gets that far it stops. No specific error message, it just stops. Same thing with Cakewalk pyro on a older computer that used to work like a charm. It gets all the way through the preparation stage and then just stops with no error message.

It does exactly the same thing for my wife on her computer in her office which is running Windows 10 and Windows Media player.

I have maybe five other computers that I've tried it on and that I've used before successfully and they don't work there either.

Nothing about my process has changed.

Does anyone have an idea or can maybe suggest a simple 19.95 software program that we can buy at Best buy that will allow us just to burn one CD without throwing 20 away???

Thanks if you have any tips. I'm stumped.

(P.S., We are using MP3s exported via Audacity at 320 that work fine in every other environment.)

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