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[eyore]

I honestly don't think it's worth perusing, to be honest. As it only seems to be  one (or both) of those two files that's the problem (foobar is playing everything else fine including further audio files I have burned since those). I took the obvious step of just burning the converted wma file again and that's the problem. Foobar doesn't see it on the CD at all - no autoplay and, in fact. foobar doesn't even open.
Again. it can be selected by the file/open audio CD command in foobar so there lies the fault. The second file seems fine.
That lack of metadata in media tab suggested there was a problem with it.
As it's only one file which I converted, I think we can say he problem is sorted.Thanks for everything.

[Some1]

... it only seems to be  one (or both) of those two files that's the problem (foobar is playing everything else fine including further audio files I have burned since those). I took the obvious step of just burning the converted wma file again and that's the problem. Foobar doesn't see it on the CD at all - no autoplay and, in fact. foobar doesn't even open.

Is that file cda or wma on the CD ?

You converted the wma to mp3 and then burned the mp3 to CD ?

Just out of curiosity ( since you seem to be done with this ), could you convert the wma to a wav file, burn to CD and see if that works. Make sure there are no issues during the conversion/decode/encode.

Instead of "wasting" a CD, "burn" to an ISO file and mount that in Windows 10. This is "built-in" to Window 10 and also an option with third party programs/apps like CyberLink and possibly Nero.

Create an ISO with the original files ( the same way you created the CD that has the issue ) and see if you have the same problem when mounting the ISO so we'll know if the simulation is the same. If it is, then try the conversion to wav and create an ISO and test that.

You can burn the ISO to the CD if you find that the wav conversion works.

[eyore]

It will be something that I've done in the conversion but. as I have several duplicate files from different sources I've burned one of those instead (yes, it's fine). I do know this (paid for) version of Nero10 does have the odd glitch with some bitrates of mp3 files.
I think I should put it down to "one of those things". I made the mistake of not testing other files before posting and presumed it was the player rather than the file. Also, I have no idea who ripped the CD or with what. I'm not really comfortable with the technical side of stuff. What I will do is convert the entire CD to mp3 and burn that and see if foobar sees it. CD-Rs are cheap and I bought a new box today