"Medium Write Error" when trying to burn a CD!!!!

I keep getting a Medium write error when trying to burn an audio cd using ITunes. I already tried switching out cheap CD-R's for high quality ones and the same thing happens. I also can't burn a picture CD using finder because another error message pops up so i don't know what it could be... Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Could be an issue with the drive itself, especially if you have one of the Matshita drives installed in many Macbook Pro which are reported to be 'krappy' drives. See here for more info...
http://tinyurl.com/kgrz4
Patrick

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I get "medium write error" when trying to burn cds

I tried to burn a playlist from iTunes and it burned one copy, then when I tried to burn a second copy my computer made alot of noise during the "initializing/finishing" stage, spit the cd out and said "medium write error" - i've tried another cd, and tried burning another playlist with the same results. Any idea what's wrong or if there is anything I can do about it???
Thanks

First, try quitting all other applications except iTunes.
Second, try burning at a slower rate.
Then try a different brand/batch of CDs.
I believe the default burn setting is 'as fast as possible'.
Today I got perfect results at 20x or slower on my mid-2007 Core2Duo MacBook SuperDrive, and about 1 out of 3 at 24x and faster with a major brand name media labeled 'up to 52x'.
Yeah, it takes a little more time to burn each disc, but if you only have a 50% success rate with a faster speed, you're not really saving any time.
The reason I suggest quitting all other applications is that heavy CPU use seems to diminish my burn success rate on all of my computers, including the Windows boxes. Your mileage may vary.

"Medium Write Error" when trying to burn DVD

i have recently been receiving the message "medium write error" every time I try to burn a DVD in my mac book pro 13 inch It doesn't matter which program I use to burn, they all give me the same (or similar) message. I also tried booting into Windows and burning from there using ImgBrn it and it was
succeed
the program went from "preparing disk" to writing to "finishing", ejected the disk and made the usual error and it looks like it don't start writing as when i put the dvd back the dvd is still empty
I used to burn these disks perfectly well with no problems, before i install lion i don't know if this is lion problem or what
i also tried to attempt to reset the PRAM. by holding down CMD+Option+P+R while booting MBP and waiting until it chimes a second time to let go of those keys.i haven't changed anything so don't understand why the error occurs. I've bought a lens cleaner disk and ran that for 2-3 minutes and repaired permissions on the HD but that didn't work either. The drive works flawlessly reading DVDs and CDs with no problem no problems.
any one can help please ????

mortiis Empire wrote:
I also tried booting into Windows and burning from there using ImgBrn it and it was succeed the program went from "preparing disk" to writing to "finishing", ejected the disk and made the usual error and it looks like it don't start writing as when i put the dvd back the dvd is still empty
Sorry, I'm afraid I don't understand this.
It doesn't matter which program I use to burn, they all give me the same (or similar) message.
The problem is that it's not relevant if the programmes use the same burn engine (eg, iTunes and Finder). You need to test apps which do not use Apple's burn engine, eg, cdrdao, cdrecord, Burn, LiquidCD, Disco, Roxio Toast, NTI DragonBurn, etc. But, FWIW, my bet is not on a software issue.

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This Q is close to - Something is wrong. What's it ?
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• Free space on Start-Up hard disk. How much ?
• Brand of DVD used ?
• Type of DVD used ?
• Burn speed set down or not ?
• Version of iMovie, iDVD'11 v 7.1.2 (OK), QuickTime and Mac OS ( X.6.8 I read ? )
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My project consists of 4 AVCHD clips imported separately into Encore as timelines and then I deleted the timelines to keep just these assets. I built a new timeline and added these three clips to this timeline. Three of the AVCHD clips are on the timeline with a total time of about 3:30. The fourth is a 30 second clip used for the motion menu background. The file size is 22.95 GB. There are 39 chapters in the project, the top page (page 0) has three buttons linking to chapters 1, 21, and 30 (the start of each of the clips). The other pages of the menu have 6 video buttons per page linked to chapters. All of the clips when highlighted will lead to the project setting "Do Not Transcode" (which is what I want) and I am buring this to a 25GB blu ray disc. When I checked the project everything seemed okay- no error messages. I then went to build the disc and after about 20 minutes I got the following error message:
"Blu-Ray Object: "<Menu>NTSC_FISH top menu",Error:"device error",Code: "2",
Note: "Too many primary video streams in clip (Spec Table 9-3,Annex B)"
The menu name is NTSC_FISH topmenu. Any ideas what the problem is and how I can fix this?
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Blu-ray error:File already exists",Code:"6", Note:Video buffer underflows. Total bitrate is too high near time = 1321.253267 seconds-
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Medium Write Error when burning CDs

Hi all, I have just started getting the message when trying to burn an audio CD on Itunes v7;
"The attempt to burn a disc failed. The burn failed because of a medium write error"
This is on a new iMac 24" that is 3 weeks old and has only happened in the past 2 days. There were no issues prior to that on any of my Macs.
I've noticed once post that suggests anyone with this error message go straight to the shop for a remedy. Any other suggestions?
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iMac 24" Duo, iMac 17 G4 1.25 & iBook 15 G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8) iTunes 7.01

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Every time I attempt to burn a CD, I get the medium write error. I have done everything from use a laser cleaner disc to buy 6 different kinds of CD-Rs - nothing is working.
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Error when trying to burn cds

Every time I use itunes to burn a cd it gets about halfway done, then finishes the disk saying that there was a medium write error. Can someone tell me exactly what this is and what can be done to fix it? I have not attempted to burn with another program because i don't know of any free ones that are decent. Please help.

i have a similar problem.
in Itunes i get the medium write error prob and the disk is spit out, never to be used again.
to remedy this i tried 2 other types of CD media - have now used Verbatim, TDK, and Sony.
The problem occurred in all.
I lowered the burn speed to 4x, and the error disappeared, sometimes, however the 'complete' discs that resulted would almost always get to the 4th track and would start skipping a little. after finally reaching the end of the track, the remaining tracks would not play at all. what would happen is that the track number would appear on the CD player was the track number, but then no recognition of track length, and no ability to play beyond this track.
i then tried to do some audio CD's thru Finder, and the same problem occurred as above.
then i d/l-ed "Burn" to see if another program would work. it didn't, the same thing happened.
i have had a suggestion to re-run the original disk that came with my macbook, but this will be a tough task in trying to find it.
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