Troubles with Backup

Hi, I am trying to do a backup of my music. Everything starts ok, ITunes warns me it may need 9 CD´s, I accept and everything goes well until the first CD is full: then i get a message "please insert a blank CD", I do it as requested, but it keeps the message "please insert a blank CD".
Am I doing someting wrong? I guess not but I would like your suggestions.
Thanks,
F

Hi Michele,
I'm afraid you're asking in the wrong place... iSync has nothing to do with Backup.
The Backup forum is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=956

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