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.
Message was edited by: HEMIII

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?
What quality was the media? Cheapo CDs? Poor quality CDs can go bad and are harder for marginal drives to read. Were they stored carefully? Burnable CDs stored in the light can yellow.
You say, "it can't write or read them or something". I understand your frustration but reporting the exact error message is critical to receiving help on a forum like this - we can only work with the information you provide. I suspect it is a read error, and that could be due to a bad drive and/or bad CDs. I have some files backed up on CDs but I always make sure I use archival grade media, and I make two copies.
Try dragging the files from the CD to an actual folder on your computer.
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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