Problems with burning an ipod playlist

Every time I try to burn a playlist a window comes up halfway through and says: An error has occured: 4261. I don't know what this means but it is stopping me from burning playlists to CD. I am using Sony CD-R discs which I believe are the write discs to use. Before attempting to burn the playlist every song was ticked. The songs were from my own CDs as I have had no joy burning downloaded songs to disc either. Of the playlist that is made up from my own CDs, I made ten attempts to burn this playlist but to no avail. The only time it did burn the full playlist I took out the CD and put it into my CD player. But this was no good as every track was skipping and the CD had become scratched in the burning process. There is nothing wrong with my CD player as it does not do this to my other CDs and I have had no problems playing CDs on my computer. It's just that itunes won't let me burn to CD. Any help would be appreciated.

If the songs on the iPod aren't in iTunes you need to copy them back there in order to burn them to CD. If you have any iTunes Music Store purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. You'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod to a computer
The transfer of content from other sources such as songs imported from CD is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod. You'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos, podcasts and games as well. Have a look at the web pages and documentation, this is just a small selection of what's available, they are generally quite straightforward. You can read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
TuneJack Windows Only
iPod2PC Windows Only
iGadget Windows Only
iDump Windows Only
iRepo Mac and Windows
iPodRip Mac & Windows
YamiPod Mac and Windows
Music Rescue Mac & Windows
iPodCopy Mac and Windows
There is also a manual method of accessing the iPod's hard drive and copying songs back to iTunes on Windows or a Mac. The procedure is a bit involved and won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's available at this link: Two-way Street: Moving Music Off the iPod

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