Audio CDs burnt off iTunes cannot be played

This is a rather curious problem - when I burn an album I purchased in the iTunes store to a CD it subsequently fails to play not only on my CD player and DVD player, but also in iTunes itself - in this last case the CD is recognised by iTunes and the Finder, properly displayed, but the songs won't play and iTunes hangs, just as my CD player does. Has anybody else experienced this problem?

Gijs Kessler wrote:
I've got a very old CD player which does not handle Mp3 (didn't exist even back then), but that is not the main issue - I just ran a test by burning an album to disk which I successfully burned to disk one or two months ago. Same settings, same album, same Mac. The disc I created two months ago plays fine on both CD player and Mac, the new one has all the problems which I reported in my initial posting and does not play. It is my suspicion that this might be a bug in the 9.0.2 iTunes update which I guess was released between the first and second disk....
could it perhaps be a bad blank cd ? try another brand ?

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