Cannot burn cd's in itunes 9

Every time I try to burn an audio cd I get the message "the attempt to burn a disc failed.The burn failed because of a medium write error". What is the problem is it itunes or is something wrong with my device?

I cannot copy my playlist onto a CD so I can play it in my car.
I insert the disk into the computer and nothing happens. It looks like it searches for the disk and nothing happens. I just got i-tunes 9.1.
I was able to do it before and now nothing.
Could anyone help? I would appreciate it.
Thanks

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I desperately need to back up all the music I have purchased and I cannot burn a CD from iTunes for some reason. I went through the trouble-shooting on this website and still had no luck. I tried to load the songs into my iPod and transfer them to my laptop iTunes as a backup but there's no way all my music will fit on my Nano. So I'm wondering if there's any other way to back up my music files...can I copy them to a zip drive or external hard drive? I am so not tech-savvy and I have so much money invested in my iTunes library. Thanks in advance!

Here's a link to the list of iTunes forums:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=149
Don't worry about it, it's no big deal, I just wanted you to know that in the future you may get more help in there.

Cannot burn cd from my itunes library reinstalled itunes and still not working. the disc pops out saying please load a blank dic/the disc i am loading is blank need help!!!

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If iTunes still isn't burning after the repair install, bob, could you post your diagnostics for us please?
In iTunes, go "Help > Run Diagnostics". Uncheck the boxes other than DVD/CD tests, as per the following screenshot:
... and click "Next".
When you get through to the final screen:
... click the "Copy to Clipboard" button and paste the diagnostics into a reply here.

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I'm having issues burning a playlist to DVD in iTunes 6 - it rejects the DVD and gives me an error message "The attmept to burn a disc failed. An unknown error occurred [261]." If I try to burn the same playlist to a CD, there is not a problem. In my "burning" preferences within iTunes, I have selected "Data CD or DVD", but when I pull the preferences up again, it only says "Data CD". I click this option again and it gives me "Data CD or DVD", but never seems to keep the "DVD" part of the option.
I have been able to burn to DVD from playlists in the past, but I believe it was before I upgraded to iTunes 6.
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Correction: I cannot burn CDs or DVDs of playlists in iTunes 6.0.1. I have no problem burning CDs in other applications and could burn CDs prior to updating to iTunes 6.

Cannot Burn CD-R from iTunes

About week ago, could not completely burn CD-R on iTunes...was able to burn two out of 15 attempts. The error message "Attempt to burn a disc failed. Burn failed due to a medium write error." No such problems since bought this Mac little over 3 yrs ago (yes off warranty)
I am using Sony CD-R's and have tried using different speeds such as 2X and 4X. Have generally used Sony CD-R's without any problems until last week.
Am using iMac 27 OS X 10.5.8 with 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. The SuperDrive is OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5630A.
Any help appreciated!

Sorry, Walter. I can' t help except to say I have the same problem. The Itunes burn process either keeps prompting to insert a disk when I have put one in the tray., or it displays the message "The Attempt to burn a disc failed. The disc can't be burned; it might be incompatible with this disc drive. Please try a different brand of disc or try try burning at a slower speed".
I was trying a speed on 1x. There isn't a slower speed.
What settings do I need to make the CD burn to work?
These are the details of the CD burner
OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5630A:
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DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
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Media: To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh
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I recently isntalled Itunes and cannot now burn CD's outside of Itunes. Whenever I click on the CD-RW drive i get the error message "incorrect fucntion". There is also now a tab missing from the properties of the drive. I can update the registry setting for this drive to let windows know it is a writebale drive (change the type from a 3 to a 2) and that gives me back the missing tab but then Itunes complains that it needs to be reinstalled because the CD settings have changed. When Itunes gets re-installed the drive type goes back to a 3 from the 2 and I can no longer write CD's using the drive! A work colleague of mine appears to have the same issue (we have the same laptop type and are running the same version of windows). Has anyone else experienced this issue?

Whenever I click on the CD-RW drive i get the error message "incorrect fucntion".
do you have an old version of Easy CD Creator on your PC? usually that symptom is associated with that. see:
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STILL cannot burn cd's in ITUNES

OK I have posted along with thousands of other people enjoying the NOT being able to burn in Itunes.. When I boot up Itunes a message comes up.
Itunes cannot locate the C/D configuration folder so you cannot import or burns cd's and DVD's . This folder must be in the same directory as I tunes ..
It's in there dont know why it doesn't see it but it's there.. Every thing works I can play cd's watch dvds I just can't burn them.. If I could go back to 6.0 with out loosing any music I would . Everything worked fine till I upgraded to 7.0..
Can't believe they would put out an upgrade with this big of a flaw .. Come on Itunes people help us out !!!!!!
By the way I have tried the Chip set down load NO help And I have tried a different burner NO HELP I also went into Imapi cd burning .com service and clicked Automatic NO HELP
Dell 8300 Windows XP nec burner
Windows XP
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Ok here is what I did. I had my Itunes on my second hard drive. So I copied the CD configuration folder from my G drive into the itunes folder on the c drive. When I opened Itunes, the error went away and I was able to burn a disk.
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for some reason when i put a cd in and try to burn a playlist a message flashes on itunes saying " disk burner or software not found" however i definitely made a cd on this computer before. anybody got any tips?

pmc290989 wrote:
Mac OS X, Version 10.6.8 ... itunes version 10.4.1 ... I do software updates regularly so I cant see that being the problem.
Ok, that gives some usefull info.
Mostly this occours with iTunes for Windows on Windows systems.
On Mac it is most likely a permissions problem. This can happen sometimes after major system updates.
First Aid
Close all running applications
Go to Disk Utility
Force a permission repair to your harddrive ( e.g. MacIntosh HD)
Ignore upcoming messages like "could not repair permissions on file xy" There caused as you perform the task on a running system and opened files could not be touched.
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Cannot burn cd's from itunes - frustrated to say the least

I have created a playlist from cd's of my own and a few from itunes. I bring up the playlist and click on the burn cd circle and it asks to "insert a blank cd". After I do so and close the door it then says "checking media". After a minute or so it spits the cd out for a few seconds and the cd door closes again and then nothing. I tried to change the burn speed to 4 and it did nothing. I've tried to use different cd's. I've updated all drivers to no avail. It worked one time before after several attempts, but that's it. Does anyone know what the heck is going on?
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Dell Inc. Dimension 8400
iTunes 6.0.4.2
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CD Driver DLL 2.0.3.2
LowerFilters: PxHelp20 (2.0.0.0), MxlW2k (1.1.0.121),
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IDE\DiskST3160023AS____________________________8.05___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
IDE\CdRomHL-DT-STDVD+RW_GRA-4120B_______________G114___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [1,0]
IDE\CdRomJLMSDVD-ROM_XJ-HD166___________________DD05___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
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D: JLMS DVD-ROM XJ-HD166, Rev DD05
Drive is empty.
E: HL-DT-ST DVD+RW GRA-4120B, Rev G114
Media in drive is blank.
Get drive speed succeeded.
The drive CDR speeds are: 4 8 16 24 32 40.
The drive CDRW speeds are: 4.
The drive DVDR speeds are: 4.
The drive DVDRW speeds are: 4.
The last failed audio CD burn had error code -128(0xffffff80). It happened on drive E: HL-DT-ST DVD+RW GRA-4120B on -128(0xffffff80) media at speed 0X.
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E\DiskST340016A______________________________3.10___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
USBSTOR\DiskGenericUSB_Storage-CFCI19A, Bus Type USB
USBSTOR\DiskGenericUSB_Storage-MSCI19A, Bus Type USB
USBSTOR\DiskGenericUSB_Storage-SDCI19A, Bus Type USB
USBSTOR\DiskGenericUSB_Storage-SMCI19A, Bus Type USB
IDE\CdRomLITE-ONLTR-24102M______________________4DS3___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
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Current user is administrator.
D: LITE-ON LTR-24102M, Rev 4DS3
Audio CD in drive.
Found 8 songs on CD, playing time 45:30 on Audio CD.
Track 1, start time 00:03:00
Track 2, start time 05:53:57
Track 3, start time 11:18:00
Track 4, start time 16:55:10
Track 5, start time 22:31:02
Track 6, start time 28:22:37
Track 7, start time 34:13:25
Track 8, start time 40:15:07
Audio CD reading succeeded.
Get drive speed succeeded.
The drive CDR speeds are: 2 4 8 10 12 16 20 24.
The drive CDRW speeds are: 2 4.
The last failed audio CD burn had error code -128(0xffffff80). It happened on drive D: LITE-ON LTR-24102M on -128(0xffffff80) media at speed 0X.
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Log in to the Developer forum. You will find instructions on how to install the lastest beta. Your problem is the beta you have installed has expired. All of them did on October 5; you will find hundreds of threads discussing this. If you have a beta it is assumed that you will continue as a beta tester, so a simple update using iTunes will not work.
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