DVD/CD burner stopped working

I've been happily burning CDs and DVDs over the past 11 months and suddenly I keep getting the error:
"The attempt to burn a disc failed. The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media."
Im using the same media, using itunes and I cant get it to work?
any ideas? faulty drive I guess?

The lens is probably dirty, try running a CD/DVD cleaner disc through it.

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