Burning to DVD "The attempt to burn..."

I am attempting to burn a playlist to DVD. After "Checking the playlist", the disc automatically ejects, and a messagebox pops up saying:
"The attempt to burn a disc failed. An unknown error occurred (1771)."
I'm trying to burn a 4 Gb playlist onto a 4.7 DVD.
Is there a capacity issue I'm not aware of?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!!

Hi
To be able to help we need more exact information and that You try out every suggestion as precise as possibly.
First step is as always - separate encoding from burn-process - By Save as a DiskImage from File menu in iDVD (as suggested by Old Toad)
If problem persists in encoding part then
• iDVD got a corrupted pref file - very common problem
• Space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk get's too low to be able to store the temp. files from iDVD and Mac OS (can not be stored elsewhere)
• Material feed into iDVD - can not be digested as strange video codecs and audio files in .mp3 .wma and other exotic formats.
iDVD pref file - to find out if this is the problem - Easiest and most secure way is to - Create a new User-account and log into this. Re-try iDVD - If it now works OK then the problem is very close to 100% in the pref file. Either do Your work in the new Account or go back and trash the old pref file.
Space on Start-Up HD - I never go under 25Gb to let iDVD and Mac OS run OK
Material - Here You need to supply specific information
• Video - from what Camera - in what codec - If You can open a video file in QuickTime-Player then here open Inspector and read Video format/Codec: nnnnnnnn, size and frame rate - and tell us
• Audio - All audio I use is in .aiff 16-bit 48kHz (as from my miniDV Camera or 44.1 kHz as from Audio-CDs all other is converted to this. iTunes is even more problematic. Here I collect all needed audio into a new PlayList and this I BURN out as a standard Audio-CD (.aiff) (never .mp3) and in my movie projects I use the files from this CD.
Yours just trying and Guessing Bengt W

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The attempt to burn a disc failed...error 4310

Everytime I try and burn songs on a cd from one of my playlists, the cd burner will complete 7 or 8 songs and then give me the following error message:
The attempt to burn a disc failed. An unknown error occured (4310)
I updated iTunes to it's newest version and I'm still having the same problem. It will never burn more then 8 songs and occasionally it will give me this message before it even finishes one song. This is VERY frusterating and I've ruined countless blank cd's trying to get this to work!
I also tried looking at other topics on this board from people with the same problem but my question was not answered.
Please Help!
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Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4 (Build 2195)
Dell Computer Corporation XPS-Z
iTunes 6.0.1.3
CD Driver 2.0.4.3
CD Driver DLL 2.0.3.2
LowerFilters: Cdr4_2K (5.3.2.31),
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IDE\DiskWDCWD800JB-00JJA0_____________________05.01C05, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
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Current user is administrator.
D: SONY CD-RW CRX160E, Rev 1.0g
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Track 2, start time 03:35:32
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Track 4, start time 11:54:54
Track 5, start time 15:40:30
Track 6, start time 19:13:02
Track 7, start time 22:27:50
Track 8, start time 26:42:37
Track 9, start time 29:09:66
Track 10, start time 33:01:05
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Hello bannahmontana
The article below will get you on your way to isolate the issue.
iTunes for Windows: iTunes Diagnostics, CD/DVD Drive Tests
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1567
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
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The attempt to burn a disc failed. An Unknown error occurred

"The attempt to burn a disc failed. An Unknown error occurred (4450)"
This is the error message I get when I try to burn a CD.
This PC IS authorized.
These files have not been burned before.
This is a new Dell Dimension 9100 DVD/RW
I've burned CDs successfully on my laptop. So not sure why I can't do it on my new desktop?
Help?

hi neocat!
sometimes this message also shows up when your PC doesn't like a particular type of media. See:
william nehart, "4450 Error while burning" #17, 07:24pm Jul 19, 2005 CDT
love, b

The attempt to burn a disc failed. An unknown error occurred (4310).

I have been able to burn CDs from music I bought off iTunes. I haven't had any problems until now.
I just purchased Mike Doughty's Haughty Melodic, the whole album. Everytime it gets almost done burning, it gives this error:
"The attempt to burn a disc failed. An unknown error occurred (4310)."
I have wasted 3 blank CDs trying to burn this. I have a lot of experience with computers, I know there is nothing wrong with my hardware.
Is this is a problem with one of the files? Is there some kind of sub-routine that iTunes runs when trying to burn a CD? I have no idea why this is happening.
Anyone have some advice?
Thanks
pimp Windows 2000

Hello bannahmontana
The article below will get you on your way to isolate the issue.
iTunes for Windows: iTunes Diagnostics, CD/DVD Drive Tests
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1567
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
-Norm G.

The Attempt to burn a disc failed. An unknow error occurred (4000)

Itunes will start to burn and then stop and state that
"the Attempt to burn a disc failed. An unknow error occurred (4000)"
while burning a data Dvd back up
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Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
MSI MS-6712
iTunes 6.0.4.2
CD Driver 2.0.4.3
CD Driver DLL 2.0.3.2
LowerFilters: Cdr4_xp (7.5.0.50),
UpperFilters: GEARAspiWDM (2.0.4.3), Cdralw2k (7.5.0.50),
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IDE\DiskWDCWD800JB-00ETA0_____________________77.07W77, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
IDE\CdRomJLMSXJ-HD166S__________________________DS1A___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
IDE\CdRomLITE-ONDVDRW_SOHW-1633S________________BS0K___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [1,0]
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Current user is administrator.
D: JLMS XJ-HD166S, Rev DS1A
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Track 4, start time 13:04:38
Track 5, start time 16:57:06
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Track 10, start time 37:45:69
Track 11, start time 41:23:33
Track 12, start time 44:45:19
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Track 14, start time 51:19:58
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please help
Clone Windows XP

try this...
This is how I managed to fix the problem...and I hope this helps others in the similar situation.
I tried with another program..latest version of Nero, and this was also stopping at the 'initialising' stage. I was now lost! I thought the last resort is to give Evesham (My PC manufacturer) a buzz. They were very helpfull. Basically go into 'Control Panel', 'System', and click on the Hardware tab, then 'Device Manager'. Uninstall everything in the DVD/CDRom Drives. Then uninstall everything under the catagory IDE ATA/Atapi disk controllers. This is where my problem was, as I only had one IDE channel here. You should have 4 or 5! Reboot your machine, and everything will automatically re-load. I tried burning using Nero and it worked. Then the big test was iTunes. It worked 1st time!
I asked why the IDE channels have dissappearred, and he said sometimes uninstalling Programmes occasionally removes them.
I hope this will help others who are having problems to burn stuff on iTunes.

Im trying to burn a cd from itunes, I keep getting a message that says "the attempt to burn a CD failed because of a medium write error" any help would be appreciated

hello, I'm trying to burn a playlist from itunes to a cd, but I keep getting a message saying "the attempt to burn a CD failed because of a medium write error" can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong. I'm not so tech savvy so any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks

I'm not familiar with this error, but check the following:
-Is your disc a CD or a DVD? You want a CD, not a DVD.
-Is the CD blank? You'll want a blank one.
-Maybe the disc is scratched and cannot be used. Try another CD.
-Maybe your disc burner is broken. If you have another, try it.

Trying to burn a playlist in itunes and i get this message at the end 'The attempt to burn a disc failed. An nknown error occurred (4450)'. This is with a new Dell laptop running windows 8. The playlist was 17 songs from cd's and itunes. Any ideas?

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try this...
This is how I managed to fix the problem...and I hope this helps others in the similar situation.
I tried with another program..latest version of Nero, and this was also stopping at the 'initialising' stage. I was now lost! I thought the last resort is to give Evesham (My PC manufacturer) a buzz. They were very helpfull. Basically go into 'Control Panel', 'System', and click on the Hardware tab, then 'Device Manager'. Uninstall everything in the DVD/CDRom Drives. Then uninstall everything under the catagory IDE ATA/Atapi disk controllers. This is where my problem was, as I only had one IDE channel here. You should have 4 or 5! Reboot your machine, and everything will automatically re-load. I tried burning using Nero and it worked. Then the big test was iTunes. It worked 1st time!
I asked why the IDE channels have dissappearred, and he said sometimes uninstalling Programmes occasionally removes them.
I hope this will help others who are having problems to burn stuff on iTunes.

The attempt to burn a disc failed. The disk is locked and cannot be written

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USBSTOR\DiskSony___MSC-U04________3.00, Bus Type USB
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Media in drive is blank.
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Sony Vaio Windows XP

hmmmm. i see that there's a chipset driver revision listed on the drivers and downloads page for your M520:
Gateway M520 > Windows XP
are your chipset drivers currently up to date?

"The attempt to burn disc failed."

Hi,
I have an older MBP, from July of the first year they were sold...2006? Can't remember. Anyway. I am running tiger still and everything is up to date. 10.4.11, iTunes 7.6 etc etc....
Anyway. My problem is, I can't get anything to burn!! Extended hardware test does not reveal any problems...
Here is what is happening..
I want to burn music so that I can play it in my car. I had a stack of 2 year old Sony CD-R's that I was using and they were perfectly, except I ran out of them. So I bought the same exact thing again...and iTunes spits out the cd and says "The attempt to burn disc failed. The burn failed because of a medium write error." Ok so I tried another disc. Same issue. Then I went and took one of my brothers 2 year old Sony CD-Rs and it worked perfectly. So I exchanged my new stack of cds for the same thing, same issue and returned them.
Since then I have burned a couple of movie DVDs on Sony DVD-Rs and they work fine. I have even burned data DVDs on Playo DVD-Rs.
This evening I purchased a stack of HP Music CD-Rs and guess what! My computer spit them out and said the same exact error message!!!
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Is it a Tiger issue?
It can't be hardware related because I have proven it can burn with no problem (just on older cds). Is it maybe a cd issue? Are newer cds somehow formated in a different way that will not work with my combination of hardware and software?
Maybe I should just spend the $300 and get an ipod adapter installed in my car...
Thanks
Adam
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MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857:
Firmware Revision: HAEA
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: No

Hi ASal,
If your Optical drive is reading correctly then the report suggests that there is already data on that disc and it cannot be written to again. Needless to say, only a CD/RW can be burned to more than once. Your info suggests that it is definitely a CD-R.
Double click your disc mounted on the desktop and see if there is any data on it. If there is then you cannot burn to it again. (Not without burning the data in "Sessions."-- A CD-R can have multiple burns in different sessions, but it cannot write over the top of already existing data. You will need a CD/RW if you wish to be able to completely erase and write again. See how you go. Hope this helps.
It appears that your profiler is well able to SEE the CD-R, but you still might have CD Burn issues. Have you tried just burning data to a CD-R through the Finder to see if burns successfully..? If it does, then you should be able to burn audio through iTunes too. Make sure youre not trying to fit too much data on the disc too. That is a common error with people...
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"The attempt to burn a disc failed. The device failed to respond properly"

Hello everyone,
I have suddenly developed a problem when trying to burn a CD. I get the "Checking playlist" and "Initializing" messages, and then Writing...(the name of the first track)", but about 20 seconds later, just when seems as if it will start burning, the CD is ejected and I get the following message: ""The attempt to burn a disc failed. The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry."
I have browsed the forums here and it seems that many other people have had similar problems. I am running a Powerbook G4, OS X version 10.2.8, iTunes 6.0.5.
I have used several different brands of media, and many slower burning speeds, but nothing helps.
I can still listen to CD's with my computer, just not burn anything.
My computer is about 5 years old. Do you think that this problem is suddenly occurring simply because my optical drive needs to be replaced?
Also, another issue, possibly related, but maybe not, is that, after my burn failed for the first time, I put in a completely different CD to see if it would play. It did, but instead of listing the correct tracks on the CD, it showed the tracks of the previous playlist that had the failed burn.
For example, I imported the tracks from one CD into my Library, then moved them to a playlist. When I tried to burn the contents of that playlist to a CD, I received the "attempt to burn failed" message that I previously described.
Then, I inserted a completely different disc, but iTunes read it as having the same contents of the playlist that had failed to burn, but when I clicked on the track titles, they played from the new CD that I'd inserted, not the failed playlist. So although the titles indicated that I was working with the failed playlist, the media that played was from the new CD.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Sarah
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.2.x)
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.2.x)

I'm having a similar problem. In my case, the problem started about two months ago. I regularly update software. Currently I'm at 10.4.10 and iTunes 7.3.2(6).
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CAN SOMEONE HELP WITH THIS ISSUE:
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Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (Build 2600)
IBM 18308TU
iTunes 10.6.3.25
QuickTime 7.7.2
FairPlay 1.14.43
Apple Application Support 2.1.9
iPod Updater Library 10.0d2
CD Driver 2.2.0.1
CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
Apple Mobile Device 5.2.0.6
Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.59.0.0
Bonjour 3.0.0.10 (333.10)
Gracenote SDK 1.9.6.502
Gracenote MusicID 1.9.6.115
Gracenote Submit 1.9.6.143
Gracenote DSP 1.9.6.45
iTunes Serial Number 0012A7CC0B5F78F0
Current user is an administrator.
The current local date and time is 2012-08-12 22:04:05.
iTunes is not running in safe mode.
WebKit accelerated compositing is disabled.
HDCP is not supported.
Core Media is not supported. (16005)
Video Display Information
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500
**** External Plug-ins Information ****
No external plug-ins installed.
Genius ID: 2e39627a5d03e3456e051c0b031fabab
iPodService 10.6.3.25 is currently running.
iTunesHelper 10.6.3.25 is currently running.
Apple Mobile Device service 3.3.0.0 is currently running.
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No drivers in LowerFilters.
UpperFilters: GEARAspiWDM (2.2.0.1),
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Track 2, start time 04:00:20
Track 3, start time 08:00:35
Track 4, start time 11:08:15
Track 5, start time 14:14:50
Track 6, start time 19:11:15
Track 7, start time 22:28:38
Track 8, start time 25:48:38
Track 9, start time 29:54:28
Track 10, start time 34:03:35
Track 11, start time 38:03:25
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Get drive speed succeeded.
The drive CDR speeds are:   4 8 12 16 24.
The drive CDRW speeds are:   4.
The drive DVDR speeds are:   4.
The drive DVDRW speeds are:   4.
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The burn failed because of a medium write error. Tried different speeds with no luck
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whenever i try to burn a CD, it always ejects the CD and comes up with "the attempt to burn a disc failed. an unknown error occured(2131)" all i want is a CD for my new car! help!!!!!!

I am having the same error.
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Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 6002)
Dell Inc. Inspiron 1420
iTunes 10.7.0.21
QuickTime 7.7.2
FairPlay 2.2.19
Apple Application Support 2.2.2
iPod Updater Library 10.0d2
CD Driver 2.2.3.0
CD Driver DLL 2.1.3.1
Apple Mobile Device 6.0.0.59
Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.62.0.0
Bonjour 3.0.0.10 (333.10)
Gracenote SDK 1.9.6.502
Gracenote MusicID 1.9.6.115
Gracenote Submit 1.9.6.143
Gracenote DSP 1.9.6.45
iTunes Serial Number 0029ABC407EFA0C8
Current user is not an administrator.
The current local date and time is 2012-11-17 15:15:38.
iTunes is not running in safe mode.
WebKit accelerated compositing is enabled.
HDCP is not supported.
Core Media is not supported. (16005)
Video Display Information
Intel Corporation, Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family
Intel Corporation, Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family
**** External Plug-ins Information ****
No external plug-ins installed.
Genius ID: 14630cdc2320d5605273b29d2b5860b8
iPodService 10.7.0.21 is currently running.
iTunesHelper 10.7.0.21 is currently running.
Apple Mobile Device service 3.3.0.0 is currently running.
**** CD/DVD Drive Tests ****
No drivers in LowerFilters.
UpperFilters: GEARAspiWDM (2.2.3.0),
E: TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632H, Rev D200
Drive is empty.
Writing CD text is turned on in the preferences. If you’re having problems burning CDs, try turning this preference off.
The last failed audio CD burn had error code 2131(0x00000853). It happened on drive E: TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632H on CDR media at speed 0X.

The attempt to burn a disc failed. Not good.

Well, I feel like I have exhausted all means to fix my problem. Can't seem to burn a CD. Tried using the Utility functions in resetting my permissions and nothing seemed to work. I open itunes and select a playlist to burn, insert a blank disc, click the burn disc icon and I hear the attempt to burn. But after 30 seconds, the time in the message box starts to increase rather than decrease as the writing of the playlist stops completely. The message I get reads "The attempt to burn a disc failed. The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry." In my console disc recording log the following appears:
iTunes: Burn started, Sat Aug 18 22:17:31 2007
iTunes: Burning to CD-R media with SAO strategy in MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-85J FAV1 via ATAPI.
iTunes: Requested burn speed was 77x, actual burn speed is 24x.
iTunes: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
iTunes: DVD-R UJ-85J: SCSITask 6588.640137 CDB: Write (10), block: 16914, count: 27 failed with service response = 1 (SERVICEDELIVERY_OR_TARGETFAILURE), status = 1 (TaskTimeoutOccurred)
iTunes: Retry #1
iTunes: Burn failed, Sat Aug 18 22:20:52 2007
iTunes: Burn sense: 6/29/00 Unit Attention, Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred
iTunes: Burn error: 0x80020022 The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Here is a solution that worked for me!
1. Uninstall iTunes 12
2. Download and install iTunes 11.4
3. Run iTunes 11.4. You will get a message that the library was created by a newer version. Just dismiss the message.
4. Uninstall iTunes 11.4
5. Install iTunes 12.0.1 again. This time disc burning should be working.
(The prior installation of 11.4 fixes the issue)
I hope this works for you as well
Note
My iTunes 12.0.1 installation was a fresh one to start with. I am using the x64 version on Windows 8.1 x64.

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