Itunes won't burn my cds anymore. Please help.

Whenever I try burning cds from itunes, it indicates that the music is being burned, but it does it incredibly fast. Then when I try to listen to the cd in a cd player, it makes a funny noise and nothing happens. It seems that itunes is somehow managing to install blank files on the cd; when I insert it in the player, the number of songs that should be on the cd appear on the little screen. Then when I hit play, "1" appears and then it shows the seconds going, as it normally would with a working cd (as in, we're ten seconds into song 1), but as I said, no music is coming out. I use "Verbatim" cds and initially I thought maybe they don't work with itunes, but then I realised I have successfully burned music from itunes onto Verbatim discs before, so that can't be the problem.  Any ideas? Thanks.

Hi Disillusion16,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like there is an issue burning a CD in iTunes and possibly a second issue related to performance. Take a look at the articles below, they provide troubleshooting suggestions that will resolve most issues like you've described.
iTunes for Windows: Troubleshooting CD issues caused by device filters
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2372
Apple software on Windows: May see performance issues and blank iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4123
I hope this helps.
-Jason

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