How to make audio CD for OLD player?
 

I just bought a beautiful 1997 Buick Riviera and it has the original OEM CD
player. It plays commercial CDs just fine, but it just ejects the ones I
burn (even though they play fine on my desktop).

wodim -v -fix -eject dev='/dev/sr0' -audio -pad *.wav

wodim terminates happily, no errors, I can also put the CD in one of my
other desktops and it plays fine.

Remembering how speeds evolved I also tried speed=0, =1 and =2 but nothing
different.

The wodim manpage isn't terribly enlightening for someone who knows little
about audio/visual stuff to begin with.

Any help or just ideas would be greatly appreciated, 'cause Google isn't
helping and I really don't want to have to resort to the cassette player. ;)

TIA.

If relevant: Debian stretch, wodim 1.1.11, AMD64, generic $25 DVD+R DL

Perhaps it can't process burnable CDs. That technology was just taking off back then. Wikipedia says:
and

Cassettes it is.
 

Case solved.

Thank you.

Hm, did you try to slot CDs into the cassette player? A common mistake; I hope you didn't cause too much damage :P

Please share the solution...

Perhaps try a different burner, a different burning program, and/or different CD brand. Even the CD player in my 2004 Chrysler can be very picky. And I've given up trying to get it to work in winter unless it's an unseasonably warm day.