Songs Will Not Play In My Music After Dragging and Dropping??

[ToothFairy]

I have some tunes that I have burned to CD. They were deleted from my documents(my music) by mistake when my computer was cleaned. Now I want them back for future burning on other CD's(MP3's). I inserted the MP3 in my computer and drag and drop them to my music file. I did that but they won't play in Musicmatch or for that matter anywhere except (D): What am I doing wrong?:confused:

[Tom]

Howdy ToothFairy,
Files are stored in a different format on CD than on your pc (which is in part why you needed to use a program to "burn" the files to a CD). You should be able to use whatever program you used to make the CD to copy the files to your pc, which will convert them back to MP3 format. If it doesn't, you can do a search and download one of the many free programs available for this. Of course, with caution. I notice many folks that post at CTH use Nero quite often (I use the Roxio that came with my hardware).

[ToothFairy]

Thr files that I used to burn the CD are gone. My computer was cleaned and they were deleted, Is there any other way to convert the CD back to the MP3?

[Tom]

No problem - you have them stored on the cd. They just have to be "retranslated" into a language the computer understands. When you copied them from the computer to the cd, the program you used to do this "translated" the files from a type the computer understands, to the type a cd understands. Now you just need to reverse this. I use a program called Roxio to do this, and know that many also use Nero (which I believe is free to download) to do the same.

[Tom]

Just checked back and see I may have misread the situation (in my defence, I have a fair bout of Flu going on). If you now don't have the progam to "burn" a cd then something like Nero is most likely what you need (or you can do a net search for others).

[WATERHAM]

I agree. I beleve if you have that you should have no problem with it. if your computer has music match or windows media, thats also a good way. ~:D ps i think those two are free!~