Burning MP3 files

Okay gals & guys ,
I've got the playlists all organized etc,etc but when I click on the BURN NOW button I get an error message that says " NO SUPPORTED CD RECORDER DEVICE FOUND " , so I am not able to burn the files to the CD-R disk .
Can you all please explain to me what am I doing wrong ?
thanks again . . .

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