Burning failure " medium write error" ????

hi folks,
have had no problem burning from current iTunes.
Downloaded two CD's from iTunes today. The first burned to CD just fine.
the second informed me that I would have to use two CD's > I said yes. (I'm using 80 minute audio Cd's - and as I said it worked fine on the other burning .) I have now tried several times and I get the following error notification at the end :
"the attempt to burn failed because of a medium write error".
what does this mean? and what can I do to correctly burn
thanks
sue
strangely, I put the disk in and it is filled with the songs .

Hi Peter,
very similar. In my case, while it was burning the songs that had been successfully downloaded and added to the iTunes Library (from which I was attempting the burn), I encountered a similar problem in relation to the above mentioned group of songs that ultimately stated the medium error message however had in fact been burned but with NO song titles.)
While they were burning - and I tried after also- I clicked "get song titles". that is when I got the message you also got about not being able to find the album on the iTunes site. I unfortunately said yes to the download request (which is interesting since it had just said that they could not be found. Ultimately I realized that I then had doubled the album , that I then had to trash. and , of most importance to this issue, the titles were never inserted - remained track #s.
I even tried selecting and burning only 5 or so of the album titles to see if it was the 22 songs that was resulting in the abnormality (since the other albums had normal 8-10 songs and burned just fine) . No difference. same result
So I'm afraid that I have no wonderful solution for you on this one. I am still holding out hope that it is the memorex Cds and will get different Cds tomorrow. Hope springs eternal
I will report back and would appreciate your doing the same if you discover some wonderful solution :-D

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The burn failed because of a medium write error.

iDVD won't burn to my DVD player for some reason. So, I made a disk image, and am trying to now use disc utility to burn that.
I am getting the following error. I am using Apple branded DVD-Rs (yes, I still have some, bought a large amount of them in 2007). I have also tried TDK, Maxell, Verbatim and Sony media. I have cleaned the lens in my DVD player. The DVD mechanism plays movies just fine, and mounts disks bought commercially as movies, and burned on my PC.
I can burn to CD-R, but not to DVD-R. I can burn to CD out of itunes, but I can't burn to DVD out of iDVD, or with disk utility.
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Here is the info on my DVD-R from System Profiler:
MATSHITADVD-R UJ-857:
Model: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-857
Revision: HAEA
Serial Number:
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal
Low Power Polling: Yes
Power Off: Yes
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MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857:
Firmware Revision: HAEA
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media:
Type: DVD-R
ID: RITEKF1
Blank: Yes
Erasable: No
Overwritable: Yes
Appendable: Yes
Write Speeds: 1x, 2x, 4x
This is an original 2006 2 ghz Core Duo 15" MacBook Pro.
i've tried TDK, Pioneer, Maxell and Generic DVD-R andT DVD-RW media, but always get this same error.
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Disk Utility: Burning to DVD-R (AN32) media with DAO strategy in MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857 HAEA via ATAPI.
Disk Utility: Requested burn speed was 2x, actual burn speed is 2x.
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Disk Utility: Burn failed, Thu May 7 09:27:37 2009
Disk Utility: Burn sense: 3/11/00 Medium Error, Unrecovered read error
Disk Utility: Burn error: 0x8002006E The burn failed because of a medium write error.

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