MacBook Pro Super Drive problems.

Hi, yesterday I purchased a 2011 i5 13" MacBook Pro and I am attemting to burn music onto CD's using the Pro's SuperDrive but when I Burn a CD it wil burn the songs but then I will get the message in iTunes, "Finishing" I will then get an error saying it couldn't finish the burn due to some kind of "medium burn" issue. I tried ejecting the disk and putting it inside the drive and it showed the song as tracks (Track 1, 2, 3...) I will then attempt to play one of the songs (Double click a song) and I end up getting a never ending rainbow loading logo and the only way to be able to do anything with my Mac is to force quit iTunes. Any assistance will help. Thanks.

I too have experienced these issues, and after having done a little more online research, it appears that many others have as well. My drive works on reading music CD's probably 60% of the time... Which I find to be unacceptable.
However, it hasn't become such a problem that it requires hardware work just yet. Hopefully it's merely a driver or software issue that can be resolved in the new OS.
Tom
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