Hi Audrey

No such thing as music CD-RWs, this is determined by how the data is written to the disc. (As per usual manufactures added extra names to their discs so that they could charge more to those that didn’t understand what was going on)

Old CD Recorders could only burn discs up to a certain speed, and as higher speed discs emerged they became incompatible with earlier drives, (Theoretically if a disc covers the speed of your drive then it should work, but in practice it’s not that easy)

Early CD players also could not read any form of CD-RW.

As CD players don’t cost much these days, you might as well buy another one. (Same with drives in computers)

Hope this helps

Bill