Burned CD won't play past the 5th track or past 10 minutes of any playlist

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After the description of the problem, I have also made notations of all the things I have done, checked, or provided as useful information to the troubleshooter as to how the machine has performed so redundacy can be avoided.
Whether using the Burner in iTUNES or Toast 5.2.1, ten tracks of music totaling 30 minutes of play time were burned. Both play lists were identical. These tracks were checked while in the library and contained no errors and played flawlessly from the digital iTunes Library.
They burned and finished up without any funny error codes.
Upon playback of the CD in iTunes, only the first 5 tracks could be played. Track number 6 began with clicking sounds and then hit dead air even thought the iTunes playing indicator indicated it was playing the track.
Track number 7 played about 1/3 into the song, stopped for several seconds, played 3 more seconds, stopped, then played 4 more seconds, then stopped. Each time the sound stopped, so did the countdown timer, which showed that iTunes seemed to be what was hesitating. It never missed a single note between intervals of starting and stopping. It was as if someone kept hitting the play/pause button over and over again, yet no one had touched a thing.
The second test was to play these through Quicktime player.
It would play the first 5 tracks. On the 7th track the player window would appear, then the spinning beachball of death would spin. I would be forced after waiting minutes of inaction to Force Quit Quicktime, which the Force Quit window would inform me Quicktime was (not responding).
The following is written to eliminate the most obvious suggestions I anticipate in receiving. I have already thought of everything I can on my own beyond incantations and an Apple corer!
* I have always used TDK-CD-RWs since I bought the machine in 2003 with no problems in the past. I know it isn't the brand of disks I use. My machine read my old Mac burned TDK disks right up to the final track, 50 minutes into the playlist.
*My portable CD player has never had a problem playing these in the past. It can play all the ones I burned 4 months ago.
* I did purchase a CD& DVD cleaning disk and cleaned the player in the MAC and the portable CD player.
* I have burned this playlist from Toast 5.2.1 and through the Burner in iTUNES with the exact same results.
* No, this play list was not burned 7 times so Apple/iTunes has shut me out of burning the play list. Most of these songs were copied from old vinyl records, and turned into AIFF files in iTUNES. The type of file doesn't seem to be the issue, no matter what the music is (AIFF or from the iTUNES store) the failure is always the same. A good half way into the timetable on the disk and I don't hear any more pretty music.
* I have had the CD player in the machine replaced 18 months ago, and it was burning DVD's and CD's just fine.
* The machine can read store bought CD's with no issues all the way to the last track on the store bought CDs. Also CD's I recorded 5 months ago play all the way to the last track, deep into the CD (I recorded these to the full 80 minutes I was allowed).
As said before I have tried everything I can think of.
Please save me from the Beach Ball of DEATH!!
Thanking you kindly.

Answer 1

How did you burn the disk, as a data disk or as an audio CD (check your Burning preferences in iTunes)? If you burned the disk as a data disk, that's essentially just a backup and will only play in iTunes. You have to burn the disk as an audio CD to play it in any other player.
Hope this helps.