I'm on my 5th CD to burn disc (iTunes). "Burn failed due to medium write error. What is that!?!!!

I am attempting to burn a music list in iTunes. I have done it many times before. I am on my fifth CD for this list, and repeatedly have got a message that the CD "could not be burned because of a medium write error." I've got that message previously, but after changing the blank disc to which I want to add the song list, it has always worked. Not this time; several attempts. What is this message telling me, if anything??

The disk you are using probably has a defect, not uncommon on consumer grade disks. Try another disk or better yet another disk from a different manufacturer or at least a different batch.

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I had been getting this all morning and checked other messages from the community. THe one which worked was trying a different brand of disc.
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There are several different incompatible media sold as writeable CDs. You MUST match the media to the abilities of your drive.
I was flummoxed by buying 8x media when my drive was a 2x drive. I needed the other type, and there was nothing helpful in the diagnostics or the packaging that helped me understand that.
EDIT: There is an interesting helpful feature buried in System Profiler ... (read the last two lines of the report):
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I've got a early '08 Macbook Pro running OSX 10.5.8 and iLife '09.
I'm trying to burn a tracked podcast to a CD, and after getting through all the mixdowns and normalizing, it will burn for a short while and will "finish" the burn, eject the CD and come up with a "Burn Failed" message that says,
"The burn to the MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-867 drive failed. The burn failed because of a medium write error."
This problem has just recently developed. I've done this many times in the past, but the last few CDs I've tried to burn have taken me four or five tries until I get a successful burn. I'm tired of wasting my CD-Rs!
My drive reads both CDs and DVDs without a problem, and burns through iTunes without a problem.
What's going on? Can I do anything to fix this?

UPDATE!!!
On suspicion as I am camera geek, (film maker)
I know dust can do weird things, I took the blank part of the disc container, you know, usually solid color or clear and cut it into a gun shape and wrapped it in one of my fiber fine lens cloth.
I gently inserted it to knock some dust loose, (think optical eye) be careful not to twist or shove to hard if resistance is met. did the old nintendo blow in the drive fromt the side and prayed.
Went back to FCPX and re-shared to disc and....... Voila!!
Burned several discs already.
Good luck if you have this.
I suspect the dust from my over amped fans due to SMC fan control could have blown dust or hair on the optic and prevented it, (this is where apple listens close)
Please advixe your "techs" to suggest compressed air or disc cleaners..although my disc cleaner did nothing.
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Burning failure " medium write error" ????

hi folks,
have had no problem burning from current iTunes.
Downloaded two CD's from iTunes today. The first burned to CD just fine.
the second informed me that I would have to use two CD's > I said yes. (I'm using 80 minute audio Cd's - and as I said it worked fine on the other burning .) I have now tried several times and I get the following error notification at the end :
"the attempt to burn failed because of a medium write error".
what does this mean? and what can I do to correctly burn
thanks
sue
strangely, I put the disk in and it is filled with the songs .

Hi Peter,
very similar. In my case, while it was burning the songs that had been successfully downloaded and added to the iTunes Library (from which I was attempting the burn), I encountered a similar problem in relation to the above mentioned group of songs that ultimately stated the medium error message however had in fact been burned but with NO song titles.)
While they were burning - and I tried after also- I clicked "get song titles". that is when I got the message you also got about not being able to find the album on the iTunes site. I unfortunately said yes to the download request (which is interesting since it had just said that they could not be found. Ultimately I realized that I then had doubled the album , that I then had to trash. and , of most importance to this issue, the titles were never inserted - remained track #s.
I even tried selecting and burning only 5 or so of the album titles to see if it was the 22 songs that was resulting in the abnormality (since the other albums had normal 8-10 songs and burned just fine) . No difference. same result
So I'm afraid that I have no wonderful solution for you on this one. I am still holding out hope that it is the memorex Cds and will get different Cds tomorrow. Hope springs eternal
I will report back and would appreciate your doing the same if you discover some wonderful solution :-D

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now type: reset-all
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go to international
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The Attempt to burn disc failed. The burn failed because of a medium write error.

Try a different brand of discs. Try restarting your computer.

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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.

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The following article provides troublehsooting steps and information that can help get iTunes burning discs again.
Can't burn a CD in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1436
Cheers,
Allen

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