Importing songs from cd to itunes problems

Hi, I am quite new to itunes but since using them a few months ago I had no trouble importing my cds. Now I am unable to do this. It takes about 15 minutes to download 00.01 minute then it will stop!! I have tried various cds but I get the same result each time. My computer did go away to be repaired recently and this has been since it came back but it was a problem with the motherboard and I have no idea if there is a connection. I am able to purchase itunes and I ran a check on itunes and it all appears fine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for answering. How would I find that out? When I put a cd in it goes straight to iTunes. I am not a very technical person but had an idea that it may be something to do with the cd/dvd driver but am unsure how to find that out.

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Hey, so yeah my comp fried itself the other day [hard disk corrupt files issues] and i managed to get it fixed, with a new copy of windows installed. problem is i didnt wipe the hard disk [because many files are ones id rather not lose] and so the other account which was on 'dont share my files' [windows is ******** that way] is completely unaccessable. This means i lose access to documents, settings, and everything on the desktop / user-related files. They're still on my computer, but completely unaccessable , and windows pretends they arent there, because im a 'different user' now. Itunes was part of that. along with my songs folder. So i reinstall itunes, and the ipod registers, though saying it is registered to another itunes library, and i can change it to this one [if i want to wipe all my songs for the nothing that the current library has in it].
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Welcome to discussions! See the instructions from MacMuse on the following link. Once you have recovered your music, I would strongly suggest you institute some type of regualr backup program for your music library.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=159372&start=0&tstart=0

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I recently bought this CD and want to import the songs to my library. However, iTunes does not recognize the the CD is even in, and this external player pops up that is part of CD. When I try another way and remove the songs from the CD itself I cannot even find the songs. Can you help me in extracting the songs from the CD?

No, there is not way around it. I would be returning it to where you bought it as a defective CD. These discs do not even meet book standards because of the copy protection. I would politely explain why you are returning it, that you can not download it on to your system because of the protection. Most of the regular posters in these forums, as a matter of principle, do not buy CC-CD's because the record companies are denying the consumer (us) our fair use rights.
I will get off of my soapbox, now.

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I noticed a few (random) corrupted music files following upgrading to iTunes to 8.02, and decided to try reload them from the CD's. The computer would add a few complete songs, but some would not load completely. (I only tried this with one CD, although I noticed songs from different albums were 'corrupt') ) This happened (the clipping) when using both the internal and an external drive.
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I was wondering if there is a way to transfer the songs on my iPod onto my computer bc my last computer crashed and took all my songs with it.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
I like this way the best...
MacMuse, "Computer Crashed" #4, 11:49pm Feb 7, 2005 CDT
And this lists a number of options...
Buegie, "How to transfer files from iPod to iTunes" #3, 08:59pm Jul 18, 2005 CDT
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