I have a bunch of blank DVDs (DVD+R to be exact).

Question: Can I burn an audio/music "CD" on a blank DVD (to be played in a CD player) - ?

Maybe.

Normally the older CD players won't read any DVD so unless it is really new, forget it.

Some of the early players won't even read burned disc's.

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No; CD players play CD's...they have no idea what to do with a DVD. Different lasers, different media, etc. That's why one is called a CD and the other is called a DVD.

DVD players are backwards compatible; CD players are not. Again, a small bit of research could answer this question.

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Thanks so much for your prompt reply!

I gave you a "yes" vote for help...

Thanks. I gave you a yes vote too.

Players have had a number of disc's they were able to play. They all are not limited to a factory stamped standard size CD. The term CD player in your question is too vague. A more specific model would be needed to tell what it is and might support.
I still say maybe..

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I'm gonna say 'No' for reasons similar to what TB0ne said - an actual Red Book player won't be able to interact with a DVD (of any type), however you *can* put audio files on a DVD-ROM which a computer can read no problem, and which may also work in some DVD/Blu-ray players if they can deal with the codecs involved (in other words, you may be able to get away with a DVD full of mp3 files in some cases - a lot of those devices can also accept USB pendrives). I know some portable CD players can do this with mp3 (or ATRAC, if they're Sony and you really hate your music) files on a CD-ROM, but I've never heard of that with a DVD-ROM, and that's way beyond what an actual Red Book player can do (I'm not actually sure if there are any standard CD players with this functionality either - this was an early and half-hearted attempt to compete with Minidisc and mp3 players from the portable CD player makers). There's also a 'DVD Audio' standard, but standalone machines that can play that are relatively rare, and I've never bothered looking into what it would take to author one as a result.

Yes, for most of the world the answer would be no. I just couldn't say that because it is really more of a very limited maybe. What the OP has and is calling a CD player I can't say yet. Didn't want to assume it is a walkman.

See I'd be more inclined to believe a discman/walkman type player would be more capable of something approximating this (mp3 via CD-R is sorta similar, right?), versus a conventional Red Book machine (a lot of the early models of which tend to not even like CD-R burned CD-Audio).

No. Period.

The question still is what the OP has. To me it is very unlikely that the drive is able to read a DVD and further some type of DVD burned but the OP could have something sitting on their desk they call a CD player or maybe they have a high end car device. I have burned cd's to dvd's and played them in computers and dvd players and blu-ray players. Until I hear what this is....we can basically assume no but ...

Yes, you can burn a CD to DVD then play it on computers, DVD players, BluRay players because all those are backwards compatible. What we are waiting to hear from the OP is exatly what he is calling a CD player. IME it is not possible to play a DVD disk, regardless of how burned and what the content is, in a true old time CD player. The mechanics of that old disk reader will not track the format used on a DVD disk. Most newer devices are backwards compatible with older media, but not vice versa.

Exactly. If it's JUST a CD player, then no...period. Never. There is no "maybe" it'll work...from the laser strength, wavelength, and the firmware on the devices themselves...it WILL NOT recognize a DVD, ever. Can't put a blu-ray disc into a DVD player either...but a blu-ray player will play all three.

Think we've beaten this thread to death.

As stated multiple times, a DVD+R can't work in a CD player, but history is full of oddities, and (taking the title out of context) some might find it interesting that it is possible to burn an audio CD onto "a DVD", if that DVD were actually a DualDisc - a double-sided disc that was CD on one side and DVD on the other.