How to get burned audio cd's onto xbox?

[Sylentwulf]

I know a lot of xboxes have issues with this, but I don't feel like digging through 5+ years of misc posts to find the best, most up to date answer :)

Is using a cd-rw the best way to get a burned audio cd to work on my xbox? Modding is out of the question, though I can connect it to my network if there is a way to do it directly via ethernet.

Any help appreciated, yes, I'm behind the times on the xbox lol. I just got one for my birthday.

[davidbrit2]

The consensus seems to be that you need to use CD-RWs. I haven't tested this yet, as I don't have any lying around, nor do I have any games that I feel like building a custom soundtrack for. My XBox is a Samsung drive as far as I can tell, and it doesn't like plain old audio CD-Rs one bit, so I'm assuming it needs the CD-RW treatment.

[Oobgarm]

For MP3s:

You can buy the Xbox Music Mixer (or whatever it's called), and get a separate program for the computer(it's mentioned in the Music Mixer manual), then connect the PC and Xbox with a crossover cable.

Kinda sucks for naming purposes, but it'll transfer them over no problem.

CDRs:

The CDRW trick does work.

[Leo_A]

CD-R's work fine for me (Philips drive).

However, I can never just copy the music when I first put it in. It never recognizes it to copy music until after I play it as a audio disc, then I can exit and go to the part of the dashboard where you copy tracks to the hd and it works fine.

[Tan]

i've seen thompson drives that won't read retail so i'm not surprised to see a thread like this, my samsung drive accepts both cd-r/cd-rw just fine, and so does my philips drive, for the record i burn at 4x or less on maxell media (used to use Gigastorage but they aren't around anymore) using mp3's at 128kb/s, normalizing volume, using Nero. ;)