I know this is an old thread and all but i want to get to the bottom of this.
I've been having this problem for a while now but only on my mum's pc which runs windows xp , i run windows 7 and the only thing ive ever burned to cd is data.
When i used both windows media and koyote soft's free easy burner (which has facilities for audio cds , i use it for backup mainly , itseems very good) both would burn shortcuts. Now when i put these cds into my hifi the disk tray moves onto the next slot (3 disk tray ftw
). That would show that the disk isnt being recognised as being there at all!
Now to my next point. When a cd is put in which is bought from say a record company , why is it that the audio on these disks (unless write protected) is NOT shortcuts? What is the difference?
What has been said here points to the software NOT being the problem. So it must be either the disk or the way in which the disk is burned! Assuming its no 3rd party program , the most likely problem is the way in which the disk is burned (since a disk is just a mirrored surface with holes in it and a plastic cover)
Could it be that the audio shortcuts are , in fact ,on the disk but are 'hidden' so the shortcut actually points to a sector on the disk which is not seen by a user , thus 'not there'?