Trouble importing CDs

I'm suddenly having trouble importing CDs. The first minute of the first song will import, and then all the rest are "checked off" but there's no actual content in the library. I've done the CD diagnostics for both my CD drives with no problem found. I've installed the latest drivers from the Dell website. I'm holding out until a last resort before that change-the-registry business. This has all worked perfectly for the past year, and now, suddenly, there's an issue. Any other thoughts before I get enough nerve to try the "filters" instructions??

You can always rip them using Windows Media Player and then add them to your itunes library.
Just make sure to change the WMP default import settings, first.

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Having trouble importing CDs

i am currently tackling the issue of my itunes not having AAC encoder under its importing preferences when i remembered it was the reason i had to import all my CDs under the apple lossless format. (this takes up so much room although the songs are good quality)
it doesnt look like i'm going to have much sucess with getting AAC onto my itunes and so i tried to convert my songs to mp3 but it came up with an unknown error [-223].
I believe i have a problem with Quicktime and thats the reason i a) dont have AAC as an importing option and b)have to import CDs as apple lossless. i have tried uninstalling/reinstalling both itunes and quicktim and downloading quicktime standalone but have had no sucess.
any help would be so greatly appriciated.
love princess.

hi y'all!
for some additional background information on poor princess_tele's travails, see the following thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2203928#2203928
(advice and suggestions welcome!)
love, b

Trouble Importing CDs and syncing with iCloud

I'm having some difficulty when importing tracks from CD's purchased into my iCloud account. I've noticed some CDs appear to sync to iCloud and others do not. Why is this happening? They are all legitimately purchased CDs that I would like to sync to iCloud. Is syncing to iCloud limited to only music purchased through iTunes?
Any idea what's causing this or how to import that music?
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I too have this problem. My settings are exactly the same as they were prior to subscribing to iTunes Match -- that is, "Import using AAC Encoder" and "Setting iTunes Plus".
When my library was adapted to iTunes Match, all the CD imported files were uploaded to the cloud without any issues. Since then, I've had trouble finding new iTune Store purchases on my devices as well as finding the imported files from my CD's.
iTunes seems to process the import after I insert a CD. iTunes displays the import progress and a green check mark once the file is completed. I can listen to the music; but, cannot transfer to a playlist (cloud or non-cloud). The files are not in my library.
Is this a bug in iTunes or is there an added function that I'm skipping?

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Ever since iTunes updated to 10.0, it seemingly imports from CDs only when it feels like it. CDs are recogonized in all drives (I have three), but it will only download the songs occasionaly. Diagnostics says that I have audio CD in the drive, but it just won't import. I have tried all of the solutions I could find on the Apple web sites, but no luck. Everytime Apple send an update I hope the problem will be fixed, but nothing. Anyone else having similar issues? Anyone have a fix?

This is what the diagnostics tells me:
Microsoft Windows Vista x64 x64 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 6002)
Dell Inc. Studio 1737
iTunes 10.5.2.11
QuickTime 7.7
FairPlay 1.13.37
Apple Application Support 2.1.6
iPod Updater Library 10.0d2
CD Driver 2.2.0.1
CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
Apple Mobile Device 4.0.0.97
Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.57.0.0
Bonjour 3.0.0.10 (333.10)
Gracenote SDK 1.9.5.502
Gracenote MusicID 1.9.5.115
Gracenote Submit 1.9.5.143
Gracenote DSP 1.9.5.45
iTunes Serial Number 00B3AB3C03582BC0
Current user is not an administrator.
The current local date and time is 2012-01-18 10:30:18.
iTunes is not running in safe mode.
WebKit accelerated compositing is enabled.
HDCP is not supported.
Core Media is supported.
Video Display Information
Intel Corporation, Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Intel Corporation, Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
**** External Plug-ins Information ****
No external plug-ins installed.
The drive H: HP CD-Writer+ 8200 Rev 1.0f is a USB 1 device.
The drive K: ATAPI CD-RW 48X16 Rev A.QZ is a USB 1 device.
The drive O: TigerJet CD-ROM Rev v2.0 is a USB 1 device.
iPodService 10.5.2.11 (x64) is currently running.
iTunesHelper 10.5.2.11 is currently running.
Apple Mobile Device service 3.3.0.0 is currently running.
**** CD/DVD Drive Tests ****
LowerFilters: PxHlpa64 (2.0.0.0),
UpperFilters: GEARAspiWDM (2.2.0.1),
E: TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-T633A, Rev D300
Audio CD in drive.
Found 20 songs on CD, playing time 50:45 on Audio CD.
Track 1, start time 00:02:37
Track 2, start time 02:30:02
Track 3, start time 05:12:37
Track 4, start time 08:36:57
Track 5, start time 11:25:35
Track 6, start time 14:11:55
Track 7, start time 16:47:37
Track 8, start time 19:01:35
Track 9, start time 21:44:07
Track 10, start time 23:42:47
Track 11, start time 25:36:37
Track 12, start time 28:15:25
Track 13, start time 30:38:10
Track 14, start time 33:20:50
Track 15, start time 36:25:02
Track 16, start time 38:52:45
Track 17, start time 40:46:27
Track 18, start time 43:13:07
Track 19, start time 45:55:35
Track 20, start time 48:41:27
Audio CD reading succeeded.
Get drive speed succeeded.
The drive CDR speeds are:   24.
The drive CDRW speeds are:   24.
The drive DVDR speeds are:   24.
The drive DVDRW speeds are:   24.

Slow to import CDs but not DVDs

Hi,
My Intel 20" 2.16Ghz is having trouble importing Cds at the normal speed.
For eg: a cd with 670mb of info took 19 mins to import. Dvds take very little time to import.
I called apple support: we reset the P ram etc. Booted into safe mode with all the peripherals unplugged, emptied the cache in my user account. Nothing helped.
The burner is a Pioneer DVR-K06. So I'm turning to the apple user community, if anybody can sort out this problem for me.
I will add, that on occasion the first import of a cd with take the "normal" amount of time. With subsequent ones taking forever. But this is not always the case.
Anybody with any ideas?
thanks Andrew.

Spoke to Apple Care and it turned out the burner was about to die. It was replaced under warranty, just before it ran out.

Trouble Importing disks

I am having trouble importing CDs. For some reason, the tack names/title appears in the Device screen, but when I burn the disk to my harddrive, it comes accross as 'Unknown Track" / "Unknown Artist." When I try to type in the names in iTunes, the typing just disappears after I press enter. I have tried deleting the whole album and reimporting, but the same problem happens intermittently again. And I have tried several disks with the same results. I am using Windows XP with the latest iTunes software. The music library is on a separate 250 GB WD harddisk. I have run virus diagnostics, but that seems OK. Any help would be appreciated. thanks,

Try posting in the iTunes Windows section - this is the Mac area.
MJ

TS1362 I am having trouble playing imported cds. The tracks keep sticking which is a bit like buffering is this a common problem and can i rectify it.

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If <alanfromnewtownards> fix fails to address the issue - turn off iMessage and Facetime in Settings. Settings\iMessage, and Settings\facetime.
Sync by cable to iTunes.
Leave cable connected, open Settings\iCloud and ensure at least Mail is on and dsplays your Apple iD email - then turn iMessage and Facetime back on. Ensure that in the ISettings...\iMessage...\Facetime page that the Receive at field and Receive video calls at email address is the same address as your Apple I.D.
Resync when finished.
If still having problems with Facetime then check that the required port is open - allowing traffic in your router.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1629
In some cases you may need to turn on Port forwarding and open the port manually to allow traffic through. See your router documentation for details.
If having problems verifying, open iTunes store App on your pad. at bottom of page, click on your ID and sign in. Go to your Account details (re-veryfying and answering security questions may be required to do this) - check all details are correct.
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Trouble Importing burned CDs to iTunes 11.0.1

For years I have been able to import CDs which I have burned on my home stereo from vinyl and other sources. Now that I have iTunes 11.0.1, whenever I try to do this I get a message that I have inserted a blank disc. I have a large collection of these burned disks, and would like to import most of them into itunes and put them on my ipod, but haven't been able to do so since updating iTunes to 11.0.1. Thanks in advance for any insights/solutions.
.... I have even put in CDs that I had imported previously, and am still told that I have inserted a blank disk, though the music from the first time i imported it has always been available, and the disk plays everywhere else.

The headers on the problem tracks may be corrupted or nonstandard. This can happen with some MP3 conversion or import utilities, and iTunes is very picky about headers. If you search the web for "mp3 repair" you'll find a number of repair tools. Here is one utility I've seen mentioned:
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Having trouble importing select pictures from a cd to my iphoto library

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. What do you have set in the System/CDs and DVDs preferences to do when a disk is inserted? If the option is not set to the Finder do so and see if that will make any difference.
Otherwise boot into Safe Mode and see if you can copy the files from the CD to a folder on the Desktop. Boot back into your normal account and see if you can import. Or import while still in the Safe Mode.
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TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
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Hello I am having trouble burning cds keep getting error mes. 4450 ? Help!

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The next time you have the problem, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
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Trouble importing from cd

I've been having trouble importing music into iTunes from a CD. Many times it will START the importing process and then freeze up (it continues to look like it's working but will be stuck in one spot for 5 or 10 minutes or longer. I end up having to force quit and starting over sometimes 2 or 3 times before it copies all of the songs. I've had the problem with old CDs but now it's doing it with brand new, out of the package CDs. I've never had this problem before and don't know if it's iTunes or the Mac Mini I'm working on. Anyone have any ideas about trouble-shooting? It's very frustrating and my PC friends are making fun of me .
Thanks!

Hi--
My Mini came with 10.4.3, but my other Macs have
10.3.8. (I wasn't able to upgrade the other
computers with the OSX discs that came in my Mini.)
Right, that's because the discs that come with the Mini won't have the necessary components to work with the other Macs. So it's either not going to work, period, or if it does, you risk an incomplete installation.
I
have never had trouble with my iBook importing and
never had trouble with my iMac which used a Lacie
external CD burner.
If you still have the external CD burner, try connecting that to your Mini and see what happens. If it works, then it's more likely the drive on the Mini. If it's the same, then probably a problem with iTunes' preferences somewhere.
Also, you could create a new user on the Mini. Try importing CDs with this new user. Again, if the imports work, then the drive is fine. But if they stall, too, then it might be time to have the drive looked at.
This is what I found for yesterday (the
day I was last importing CD's) in my Console.log.
But I don't know what it means or if it's related to
iTunes application.
None of that stuff in the log has anything to do with iTunes. The mdimportserver is just an informational message from Spotlight telling you that it wasn't able to decode some data in a file, so it would treat it as if it were binary data instead of text.
The DirectoryService NetInfo listings can be gotten rid of, I believe, by turning off "NetInfo" in the Directory Access program in your Utilities folder. That's according to a post a short way down this page.
The other errors from Dashboard are just garden variety notifications. I was thinking that perhaps you were getting Disk I/O errors in your console log, or SAM multimedia sense errors. Those can be caused by either bad drives or bad CDs.
charlie

Trouble Importing

Hey guys, I'm having a trouble importing songs from a CD I bought recently, and I wonder if iTunes or the CD has a problem.
When I play the CD with iTunes, it plays fine, but it skips a few parts of songs when I try to import. Do you have any idea?

If you go into the iTunes preferences, click on the advanced tab and go into the import preferences, there is a check box to turn on error checking when importing CDs. This will slow down the import some, but is supposed to help prevent what you are experiencing.
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I am able to import them but then when I try to play music, nothing plays.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Computer turns off when importing CDs and converting files! HELP!

Hi everyone,
I'm having trouble importing music from CDs and converting files on my computer. The computer just turns off when I do these things and I'm really stuck as to why. Can anyone help?

I just started having the same problem. I was able to import songs from 5 cds with no problem, but when I tried a few more my mac started shutting down about halfway through the import of the song. It doesn't matter how many songs I choose to import, it happens on the first one everytime. Did you find a fix for this?

Continual problem importing CDs

For years now I have had problems importing CDs, and I am at my wit's end. Many times when I import a CD, I finish, eject the CD, and find that my songs are no where to be found on itunes. Often time they will hang out in the "recently added" playlist, but even then, if I had gone through the trouble of "getting info" and changing the song descriptions and what not, those changes would surely not be shown there. Furthermore, I can't seem to get itunes to recognize the tunes even when they are in this recently added area.
Please help.

I have lost songs in the past and this is what I did to fix it. iTunes uses an on-line service called Gracenote to get the details like song titles, album title, artists, genre and so on. One of those bits of info is whether or not the CD in question is a compilation. This data was entered by people like you and me. If Gracenote doesn't have it in its database, it will prompt you to enter the info and the next person will have it ready to go.
You can search under artist (CTL+B) to look for "Compilations" or you can also look under "Various Artists"
iTunes files albums by ALBUM ARTIST when possible. Gracenote doesn't give that info so if there is a guest artist on one song, that song shows up as a separate album. I fix this by highlighting every song in that album and right-click to GET INFO (CTL+I) and fill in the blank for ALBUM ARTIST.
A more basic check is to look in EDIT > PREFERENCES > ADVANCED to see where iTunes puts things by default. I have a pretty big library, so I installed a separate drive and made that my default. Right below the drive location is a couple of important check boxes.
"Keep iTunes Media Folder Organized" means that iTunes will create folders by ALBUM ARTIST (or ARTIST if you didn't fill in the blanks) and each album as a sub-folder.
"Copy Files To iTunes Media Folder when adding to Library" If you have music files in your computer (thumb drive, desktop, e-mail, MP3 disc, etc) and you add them to your iTunes Library, they stay right there if this box is not checked. iTunes knows where to find them (until you pull the thumb drive out) If you check this box, iTunes puts a copy in the Library: MUSIC > ALBUM ARTIST > ALBUM >
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