How do I fix a "medium write error" when I try to burn a MP3 CD?

how do I fix a "medium write error" when I try to burn a MP3 CD?
Thanks,
Jackie

First, update your Mac OS 10.6.8 (Apple menu Software update).
If that doesn't do it, try a different brand CD-R.

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I have been surfing through a lot of forums and some people found it useful to choose a slower burn speed, some cleaned their disc drives and were helped for a few days but this problem keeps recurring. I have tried the opensource software "BURN" with no problems. I think the main problem is itunes and their low level software that communicates with the hardware. This is really an inconvenience. safari has major problems loading webpage unless opendns is used. I dont know what going on. I agree that apple probably makes the best softwares compared to microsoft in terms of speed and performance but they often get the basics wrong. Im switching back to a slower pc, atleast it will browse the net, play flv's properly and burn my f###ng discs. Ohh another greatest achievement by apple: The iphone 4.
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What type of disk and manufadturer is it? What speed are you writing at?
OT

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Removing and reinstalling iTunes and other software components
If applicable, disconnect any iPod or iOS device and close Microsoft Outlook.
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C:\Program Files\iTunes
also on 64-bit systems:
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Download the iTunes setup file and run it to install. Use an account with administrative rights. This can usually be achieved by right-clicking on the downloaded file and selecting Run as... or Run as Administrator. In some cases a combination of Shift or Ctrl keys may be required for the option to show, or it may not be necessary.
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I keep getting a Medium write error when trying to burn an audio cd using ITunes. I already tried switching out cheap CD-R's for high quality ones and the same thing happens. I also can't burn a picture CD using finder because another error message pops up so i don't know what it could be... Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Out of nowhere, every time I try to burn a cd, it either kicks the CD back out after burning about half of the songs, or pretends to have burned the whole disc, but when I try to play it, nothing is on the CD. I am getting so frustrated. Please, if anyone has a clue why this is happening and what I can do to fix it (aside from taking my computer into the Apple Store for the millionth time), I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

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First, try quitting all other applications except iTunes.
Second, try burning at a slower rate.
Then try a different brand/batch of CDs.
I believe the default burn setting is 'as fast as possible'.
Today I got perfect results at 20x or slower on my mid-2007 Core2Duo MacBook SuperDrive, and about 1 out of 3 at 24x and faster with a major brand name media labeled 'up to 52x'.
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I also tried booting into Windows and burning from there using ImgBrn it and it was succeed the program went from "preparing disk" to writing to "finishing", ejected the disk and made the usual error and it looks like it don't start writing as when i put the dvd back the dvd is still empty
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It doesn't matter which program I use to burn, they all give me the same (or similar) message.
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