ITunes can't see external writer

Hello everyone..
I have a Mac mini with a broken CD/DVD writer. So I use an external one - but iTunes doesn't see it and tells me to insert a CD [when I already have] so that I can burn a music CD from an mp3 file.
I guess it's internal wiring isn't set up to do it this way...
I downloaded a prog called MediaHuman Audio Converter, as it said it could do the job.
But when I set it up it doesn't seem to have a format for CD audio format [unless it's one of these: AAC, AC-3, AIFF, ALAC, FLAC, OGG, WAV, WMA].
Is there anyone smarter than me out there [not hard....] who can assist please??
Thanks
John
[also posted this in iTunes section]

I managed to work out why iTunes couldn't see the ext writer [I didn't check it in the drop down menu...]  
So, although I didn't manage to get AIFF files written to the disc to work on my CD player... the situation is now resolved.

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