"BURN" (software)

Question

Anyone heard of "BURN"?
Since my ITunes is not working, I downloaded it from Download.com. its a free app for Mac -- it came highly recommended. - supposedly it will burn CDs, DVD etc
so I dropped 10 songs into it, popped in a cd, clicked BURN and it only burned the LAST song on the list.
so I tried again. I lowered the burn speed to 16x (from 40x) and this time made sure everything was highlighted. still only burned the LAST song on the list.
so I posted the question on their forum but no answers yet.
Since I Tunes will not burn a CD and now this... Im wondering if its something else?
I have a practically new superdrive which I have been able to burn dvds from
any ideas?

Answer 1

so is it safe to say the new superdrive is not at fault here?
I would contend quite the opposite. Since you are using good quality media then it is likely something else which might be the optical drive. Then too I have used really poor quality media with my drive and it only reports errors at the verify stage, not the message you posted earlier.
2nd, they are 80 min cds... the 17songs added up to 1:28:15 .... if the CD is good for 80min (1:20:00) thats leaving about 8min over .. I wonder if it just cut off the remainder of the songs?
Cutting off the tracks for that reason is possible. Can't you get information on the tracks and see how many tracks would get excluded on that basis? Earlier you said "tracks 1-13 work but 14-17 do not." Unless tracks 1-13 are long and the final 4 are short it doesn't sound like they are being cut off for that reason.
I would say that since you are still trying to unravel issues that starting off by trying to burn more tracks than should fit isn't helpful in analyzing what is going on. Try burning something that is, say, 75 minutes in length.
but why would Liquid let me add the tracks? (when you are adding tracks, its adding up the percent of the CD used, so I kept adding till I got to 100%)
I have noticed Liquid CD will do this but I haven't tried burning that way. In fact I usually don't fill a CD to more than 95% capacity since it's usually those last outer regions that are most prone to damage.
3) if superdrive is not at fault, that brings me back to "why does Itunes (9.2.1) shut down when I click "Burn"?
Just so others know, there is a pretty lengthy topic about this in the iTunes forum, where I posted many replies. There were crashes with iTunes. I mentioned others have reported iTunes 9 sometimes resulting in crashes with third party burners such as yours. I suggested trying Patchburn (which supports compatibility of third party burners with Apple burning applications) but you didn't say if you ever tried this. I also suggested using non-iTunes burn utilities which is how this topic arises.