i bought a CD-R but i will not play in my car?

it may be defective or you may have a faulty drive on your PC

The older a CD player is, the less likely it is to be able to play CD-Rs or CD-RWs,

which typically reflect only 25% as much of the laser beam as do regular ("pressed") CDs.

Older units generally have less-sensitive pickups

than do those made after home-recordable CDs became available.

I have a DVD player that will play CD-RWs, but Not CD-Rs.

Your laptop most likely is simply telling you the drive (meaning the hardware where you insert the CD or DVD) can play, most likely even burn, DVDs. Many computers that can both play and burn DVDs will by default say the drive is DVD RW, not CD RW or CD R, because it is telling you what it can play and burn with the most information and complexity. DVD RWs are more complex and require more computer functions often than DVD RW, and certainly CDs. And most DVDs hold a lot more information than CDs. It is simply telling you what the drive is- DVD RW is thus the drive you are dealing with, and this applies to any computer that can play and burn DVDs.

Most likely, the CD is not playing in your car because you did not select the "burn as AUDIO CD option." It might have been burned as mp3s, or by simply sounds copied and burned, without the audio CD label. Most CD players only play CDs selected as audio CDs.

The CD is almost definitely a CD-R assuming you got it new, because Verbatim is not only a reputable brand- CD companies are required to have thorough inspections to make sure they are selling what they are advertising. And second and third parties often come in to make sure this is true as well.

Hope this helped.

Max

Some car decks don't support CD-Rs. Only original discs.

Okay so I've got to make a few guesses here....

I'm guessing you are seeing the "DVD-RW" message if you look at the disc using file explorer? If that's the case it's not telling you what the disc is, but what the drive is. So if I do this on my own laptop it'll tell me BD-ROM irrespective of what the disc is - even that is incorrect as the drive is actuall good up to BD-R/W DL!

Next, why won't it play in the car? Odds are that you've just copied the music across! Many cars won't play audio files off a CD-R. Instead the disc needs to be written in CDA (CD-Audio) format - which any good burning software (even the free ones) will do. This is changing whith brand new cars reading .MP3s and various other formats - though they will not handle copy protected formats (usually).

Hope that all helps!