Data dvd backup

Good morning,
yesterday i made a playlist of my library 16,208 songs.
i was expecting to use more than 20 dvd's.
i'm wondering does the burning process go in order of the playlist ? i ask because it stopped after disc 20
it said insert another blank disc and i did but wouldn't burn anymore, just kept saying insert blank disc.
i remember right before it happened it did a nirvana song, so can i make a new playlist from nirvana onwords and start over from that point? or do i need to do the whole thing over again ?
and i keep seeing posts about these special files i have to backup ? backing up the music only won't do the trick for me next time my external goes kaput ?
thanks for your help
mike.

First a single layer DVD will hold roughly 4 to 4.7 GB of data so you can open iTunes, click the main library and at the very bottom center of the iTunes window see the size of all the songs listed in iTunes together. Currently mine is at 30GB so it would take me about roughly 6 to 8 DVDs to back all up.
Theres afew ways to back up things, you can backup on DVD in iTUnes by going here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93033
The "Specail Files" your most likly talking about backing up that you have seen on here is the "iTUnes Library" file. Most back this up with there music to an external drive or by using windows to burn a CD/DVD of the whole "My Music" folder. THe reason for doing this is so if you have to reformat the PC or whatever, You can put this file back in and iTUnes will have all your playlist you created and all the ratings/playcounts of each somg like it was before you reformatted. More on what the library file is, does and where it is in windows can be found here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93732

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