Two points:
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Failure to play a successfully written CD can be game related (protections not copied across and the appropriate patches to overcome this not applied esp. applicable to EA games) or it can be modchip related (we don't know which modchip on what PS2 and what game and origina of game is involved). Quite often the matter is resolved if you use CloneCD and a fully compatible burner.

2/
I doubt that you are using specially designated AUDIO media. If you are burning data media (i.e. not in a box marked "Audio") then it'll be fine (unless it's black media which absorbs to much laser light).