Hello:

The word "Finalize" is used loosely that can be confusing, plus different CD burning applications may call it different. The term you're looking for is either "Close CD" or "Finalize CD". Doing this will completely close the CDR disk meaning it will be a CD disk and no further writing or burning is possible. Which should make it possible 99.99999% of the time playable on most audio CD Players, especially the older ones.

Note 1: Finalize session is in fact not closing a CD completely, the CDR is still recordable which may cause some problems on some audio CD Players.

Note 2: CDR disks I believe are the only disks that can work on audio CD Players, using CDRW disks are not compatible with audio CD Players, as far as I know...

Anthony