Itunes won't read cds

I just installed Itunes on my Dell Latitude (Xp). When I place a CD in, Itunes opens up, but it doesn't inport the songs. I read through the help section in the software and updated all of the drivers and still NOTHING. Any ideas on why this is happening? Any help would be appreciated folks.

I'm having a similar problem on my Dell Dimension 8200. Itunes won't recognize my CDs though Windows media player reads and plays no problem. Went to Apple site, watched "how to" video on topic, upgraded to version 6 itunes, upgraded firmware for my cd player. CD diagnostics in Itunes sees the cds noting that "Audio CD reading succeeded". Go figure. It WON'T show the tracks and when I go to File - Import a dialog box opens for my drive but no content shows. HELP - I just got three of these for my family but it won't work!
Dell Dimension 8200 Windows XP

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I have had a similar problem with my system. I just recently (within a week of this post) built a brand new desktop. I installed Windows 7 64-bit Home and had a clean install, no problems. Using IE downloaded an anti-virus program, and then, because it was the latest version, downloaded and installed Firefox 4.0. As I began to search the internet for other programs to install after about maybe 10-15 minutes my computer crashes. Blank screen (yet monitor was still receiving a signal from computer) and completely frozen (couldn't even change the caps and num lock on keyboard). I thought I perhaps forgot to reboot after an update so I did a manual reboot and it started up fine.
When ever I got on the internet (still using firefox) it would crash after anywhere between 5-15 minutes. Since I've had good experience with FF in the past I thought it must be either the drivers or a hardware problem. So in-between crashes I updated all the drivers. Still had the same problem. Took the computer to a friend who knows more about computers than I do, made sure all the drivers were updated, same problem. We thought that it might be a hardware problem (bad video card, chipset, overheating issues, etc.), but after my friend played around with my computer for a day he found that when he didn't start FF at all it worked fine, even after watching a movie, or going through a playlist on Youtube.
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I recently switched my library over from a Mac laptop to a PC desktop. I have about 70 GB of perfectly organized music accumulated over years and years.
In the process, after I loaded some songs into iTunes (using the Keep My iTunes Folder Organized and all that stuff), I noticed that about 10 GB of music were without titles, artists, or album info, and just displayed the name of the MP3 file (so like instead of displaying 15 Step by Radiohead from In Rainbows, Track 1 it displayed "01 15 Step" in the Title column only).
The problem is that when I navigate to these songs in Windows Explorer, not only do I see all of the correct ID3 information, I see the extras like Album Art have loaded perfectly as well. I can play these songs in Windows Media Player and the ID3 info is perfect.
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I am also having the same problem with about 200 of my MP3s. The tag info shows up perfectly using QuickLook on Leopard, but in iTunes I can't see any of the info. I have tried converting the ID3 tag version, revesing the unicode....nothing.
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Dell Dimension 8200 Windows XP
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I've tried several times to burn a CD from iTunes. It used to be fine...it will burn all the way through, then stumble a bit on the final song, taking a few minutes longer than necessary, then it will say it's finished, but when I try to play it, it doesn't work. On iTunes, it will show the little speaker to the left of the song, skipping from one song to the next very fast, but won't ply anything.
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Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Sony Corporation PCV-RS710G(UC)
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LowerFilters: AFS2K (3.1.21.0), PXHELP20 (2.0.0.0), Cdr4_xp (7.5.0.50),
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Video Driver: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 \GeForce FX 5200
IDE\DiskMaxtor6Y200P0_________________________YAR41BW0, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
USBSTOR\DiskSony___UMH-U_HS-CF____3.34, Bus Type USB
USBSTOR\DiskSony___UMH-U_HS-MS____3.34, Bus Type USB
USBSTOR\DiskSony___UMH-U_HS-SD/MMC3.34, Bus Type USB
USBSTOR\DiskSony___UMH-U_HS-XD____3.34, Bus Type USB
IDE\CdRomPIONEERDVD-RW__DVR-108_________________1.00___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
IDE\CdRomSAMSUNGDVD-ROM_SD-616E_________________F500___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [1,0]
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So long story short, I lost my iTunes library and had to re-import all of my songs. Problem is, iTunes isn't reading the ID3 tags correctly, and most of my music has "unknown" under artist, album, etc. Normally, it wouldn't be a big deal to just go through my library and update the information for the tracks manually. But I have a LOT of music, and it would take forever to do so for my entire library. I use iTunes whenever I import CDs or purchase music, so the ID3 tags were all originally created by iTunes itself, which doesn't make any sense. All of the ID3 information (track names, artist, album, etc.) is showing up fine in Explorer and Windows Media Player, so I'm not sure why iTunes isn't recognizing it. Any ideas?

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ITunes won't read my backed up music on CD.

OK so I backed up all 11 gigs of my music 5 or so years ago. I'm trying to play them in iTunes....ok so I insert the disk (CD) and it shows the name of the CD but nothing happens with iTunes (I have it set up to play auto) so I try to add to library it starts but then after processing 13 or so songs it says it can't write or read them or something. I'm.....mad I bought all my music on CD's over thousands of $$$ worth and someone stole them from me 3 years ago now all I have are these mp3's on 13 CD's and iTunes can't read them when they where made by iTunes by me and my bought CD's at that. Someone please tell me there is something I can download to fix this problem? I'm about to loss it a bit. Please help.
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How old is the CD drive? Is it the original drive? Old drives can often have problems, especially with burned media. I've seen lots of computers younger than yours that have required replacement optical drives (fortunately a matter of $30). Have you tried reading the files on another computer, hopefully one with a newer drive?
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HEMIII wrote:
OK so I backed up all 11 gigs of my music 5 or so years ago. I'm trying to play them in iTunes....ok so I insert the disk (CD) and it shows the name of the CD but nothing happens with iTunes (I have it set up to play auto) so I try to add to library it starts but then after processing 13 or so songs it says it can't write or read them or something. I'm.....mad I bought all my music on CD's over thousands of $$$ worth and someone stole them from me 3 years ago now all I have are these mp3's on 13 CD's and iTunes can't read them when they where made by iTunes by me and my bought CD's at that. Someone please tell me there is something I can download to fix this problem? I'm about to loss it a bit. Please help.
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