ITunes, Burning Cds, Converting to AIFF

I am using a Mac Mini with MacOS 10.4.3 and I cannot get I tunes to burn songs to
CD.
I do the following:
1. Make a playlist
2. Select all items (either by ticking box or clicking the title. I have tried
both.)
3. Click the burn disc icon
4. Insert a blank disc
5. Click burn disc icon again.
An alert window appears saying: there are no songs to burn on this playlist.
Add songs . . . etc.
When I try the same process on our other computer (an eMac with MacOS 10.3) I have no problem. The burn takes place as expected.
I have also tried with the Mini, using Toast 6, by converting the songs to AIFF
from the Advanced menu. This appears to happen, with the orange button and bell
ong signal, but when I check through get info (Command I) it says they are
still Quick Time movie files. Toast will not accept them as audio files.
Can you suggest any solution to either or both these problems?
Regards,
William Johns

Did you set the burning perferences to the correct disc format?
What type of disc are you trying to burn (Audio CD or MP3)?
You can find step by step instructions in the iTunes help.
After launching iTunes Help, go to Contents>Burning CDs or DVDs.
There you will find several topics about creating CDs.
If you convert tracks in iTunes, they will not be 'converted', but iTunes will make copies of these track in the format chosen by you.
These copies will appear in your Library.
I can (faintly) remember reading some posts about troubles with mp3's recognized as QT movies.
Searching these forums may give you a hint.
Maybe someone else can clarify this.
M

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