I can't burn audio cd's from my windows media...

Question

my computer is an acer aspire m1640, i have windows media player and i want to burn some old tunes back onto cd but i get the message "connect burner"
i installed "infraburner" from the web but can't get the media player and the burner to work together to burn my tunes!?please help as the original cd's are well gone and i want them on cd for my car.
hoping you can help,
steve