I used k3b to write a music CD on my Asus laptop. I then put it back in the drive, and Kubuntu told me that it was blank. Yet when I brought it over to a different machine, or to a non-computer CD player, it played correctly. The files on the CD are WAV, not MP3.

I've heard of problems where you write a CD in one machine and then can't read it in a different machine, but this is the other way around! The originating machine can't read it but the foreign machines can. I don't understand that at all.

The default writing speed is 24X. I tried lowering it to 16X, but that had no effect.

Does anyone here know what the problem might be?

Greetingz!

Are you sure you burned an "Audio CD" and not a "Data CD"?
An "Audio CD" doesn't care what the source-files are (*.WAV, *.MP3, *.OGG), as long as K3B can read them, it'll burn them.

However, if you burned a "Data CD", that means you could mount-up the CD and when you do an "ls -l /mnt/cdrom" you would see a bunch of "*.WAV" files. (Which means you should read the help that comes with K3B)

If it wasn't really a music CD, I wouldn't be able to play it on an ordinary CD player. But it automounts as a blank CD, not a data CD.

A music CD doesn't mount. It has no filesystem. K3B shouldn't say it is blank however, and the tracks should show up in K3B since you can rip audio CDs. Did you maybe have multisession checked? (not sure if that option is present when burning audio CDs.)

Some CD players might play a data CD with mp3s in it. My DVD player will anyway.

If you insert a real audio CD, do the songs show up in k3b? Can you play the CD in a music player program?

The problem must be with the drive, since I can't write readable music CDs from Windows Media Player either. And all the ones I've written are readable elsewhere. Data CDs are no problem, nor are music CDs from other sources. But I still find the behavior hard to believe.

Thanks.