Chuck writes: <<her CD player software opens and starts 'playing' the songs that are supposedly on the burned CD. they won't play on a regular CD boombox type of player.>> Domestic CD players won't usually play computer music. They are in different formats. The computer music is probably MP3. This is a form unknown to most older domestic CD players. The files would have to be converted to the format used by the domestic player. There are many conversion programs available for this. I don't know how good they are musically. MP3 is much compressed anyway, so won't sound quite as good for serious listening as regular music CD's. But that depends on the quality of your domestic playback sound system. On a small "3-in-one" you probably won't hear any significant difference. Don Penlington From the beach at Surfers Paradise. http://www.geocities.com/donaldpen/ for sunny Queensland photos, fractal art, free computer tutorials, and more. "Hold No Punches.." Rode brings you great shareware/freeware programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column. http://freepctech.com/rode