Creating an audio CD

I am having an awful time with Vista (surprise surprise?). With XP I used to
buy a song from iTunes, then burn it to CD, then rip it to WMP having set the
option that ripping a music track produces an mp3. This worked great. But I
can't even create an audio CD in Vista. I'm using CD-RW disks (to be frugal),
because I just need them to do conversions with. When I insert a cd-rw, I get
disk needs formatting and then it tells me it cannot format it. Or I cancel
the formatting request and choose Burn in Windows Explorer and it just
creates a data cd. If I burn from iTunes, my optical drive doesn't recognize
any data on the cd, though there's no indication of that until I actually try
ripping with WMP or actually look at the disk: Windows shows me a disk that
has no data on it. I've tried 3 or 4 different CD-RWs, erasing them,
formatting them (successfully sometimes), but I can't manage to create an
audio cd. I need help, please.

"Benzmum" <benzmum@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:43CB5A76-1DEF-4E7F-98AE-3596D6091EC4@microsoft.com...
>I am having an awful time with Vista (surprise surprise?). With XP I used
>to
> buy a song from iTunes, then burn it to CD, then rip it to WMP having set
> the
> option that ripping a music track produces an mp3. This worked great. But
> I
> can't even create an audio CD in Vista. I'm using CD-RW disks (to be
> frugal),
> because I just need them to do conversions with. When I insert a cd-rw, I
> get
> disk needs formatting and then it tells me it cannot format it. Or I
> cancel
> the formatting request and choose Burn in Windows Explorer and it just
> creates a data cd. If I burn from iTunes, my optical drive doesn't
> recognize
> any data on the cd, though there's no indication of that until I actually
> try
> ripping with WMP or actually look at the disk: Windows shows me a disk
> that
> has no data on it. I've tried 3 or 4 different CD-RWs, erasing them,
> formatting them (successfully sometimes), but I can't manage to create an
> audio cd. I need help, please.
>
D/load and install CDBurnerXP.
It runs OK on vista32, and it`s Free...
http://cdburnerxp.se/download.php

best wishes..