I burend a cd tonight for my car. I thought I burned it in mp3 fourm at 192kbs. Well the alpine head unit said it was burned in wma format. The disc would play like 2 seconds of the song and play a differnt song. I look down to see what going on. Then the display shows not supported. I know this cd player can play almost both mp3 and wma formated  disc. I have never had a problem with wma in the past. So whats going on here?

what program are you using to burn the cd?

It was windows media player. I have also used nero in the ppast seems to work ok. Put I cant seem to burn the songs to mp3 fourm. I know I riped my cds in my computer to mp3 fourm.

Couple questions, did you finalize the disk?  Did you burn it on a CD-R or CD-RW?

when you write a song to a CD, they should no longer be in wma or mp3 format unless you are writing a data cd. Some head units can play these cds (which would be data cds technically) as long as the files on it are supported, usually popular formats such as the mp3 or wma.

It sounds like you accidentally burned a data cd with music files, some of which are compatible with your head unit, but others that aren't, like perhaps a .m4p or whatever the format itunes uses. The only thing is, I don't know if you can even burn data cds with windows media player.

Well I burned it on a cd-rw cd. I just burend a new cd in nero and it said it was in mp3 fourm. Well it wouldn't play at all. So it looks like as soon as it warms up a little Iam going to be hooking up the ipod.

I don't understand why it is saying it is burning in "mp3 form" because an audio cd does not have mp3 files on it. In the burning process, the files are converted before they actually go on the disc. That's why a 700MB CD can only hold 15-20 songs even though each mp3 is about 4mb on average