How To Burn CD's So It Will Play In Sony DVPS9000?

I have the same player. If you look on page 7 of the manual it states it cannot play CD-Rs. I have been told that it will play Sony CD-RWs, but have never tried it. I sent an e-mail to Sony's technical support to find out what media (including brands) would play in their unit. They replied: "We're sorry, your question is beyond the scope of our technical support team." I think their "scope" must be limited to how to play, stop, power on, power off--and maybe some advance features like skipping to a scene.

I'm using an NTI CD maker to burn MP3 files to a CDRW on my Plexwriter 12/10/32S to play on my S9000ES. I never had any luck using a CDR to play on my S9000ES and I tried quite a few.

If the laser isn't calibrated to read the wavelengths reflected by the ink on CD-Rs, there's no way the machine will play them. CD-RW's reflect light in a completely different way, but the wavelength reflected is very similar to CD's, just MUCH lower level. Seems like a big oversight from sony not to include the CDR feature on their machines. Cheers!