DVD burning in iTunes4

[homeshire]

i posted this also at apple/support/discussions, but am not getting a resolution. i want to burn my (modest) iTunes music collection to DVD (283 tunes, 1.05 GB). i recently hosed my whole system, and have had to erase and rebuild from scratch with poor and incomplete (and sometimes nonexistent) backups. i insert a dvd-r purchased from my local apple store, and iTunes comes back and tells me it's ready to burn 250 files. i have 283, almost all of which are burned on various CDs, and suffice for backup, but it is hardly an elegant solution. i don't want to use a DVD for a partial collection burn when it should not come close to the full capacity of the disc. further info: iTunes 4 set in prefs to burn Data CD, Quicktime 6.2, OS X 10.2.6. is there something i'm just not getting? why will it not recognize and burn all 283? thanks :confused:

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by homeshire
i posted this also at apple/support/discussions, but am not getting a resolution. i want to burn my (modest) iTunes music collection to DVD (283 tunes, 1.05 GB). i recently hosed my whole system, and have had to erase and rebuild from scratch with poor and incomplete (and sometimes nonexistent) backups. i insert a dvd-r purchased from my local apple store, and iTunes comes back and tells me it's ready to burn 250 files. i have 283, almost all of which are burned on various CDs, and suffice for backup, but it is hardly an elegant solution. i don't want to use a DVD for a partial collection burn when it should not come close to the full capacity of the disc. further info: iTunes 4 set in prefs to burn Data CD, Quicktime 6.2, OS X 10.2.6. is there something i'm just not getting? why will it not recognize and burn all 283? thanks :confused:

Just go to your music folder and drag the folder or music files to your DVD. Then chose burn from the 'file menu' in the finder. I find that to keep DVD data burns reliable in the finder it helps to keep the amount of data to under 4.1GB.

[TyleRomeo]

Originally posted by homeshire
i posted this also at apple/support/discussions, but am not getting a resolution. i want to burn my (modest) iTunes music collection to DVD (283 tunes, 1.05 GB). i recently hosed my whole system, and have had to erase and rebuild from scratch with poor and incomplete (and sometimes nonexistent) backups. i insert a dvd-r purchased from my local apple store, and iTunes comes back and tells me it's ready to burn 250 files. i have 283, almost all of which are burned on various CDs, and suffice for backup, but it is hardly an elegant solution. i don't want to use a DVD for a partial collection burn when it should not come close to the full capacity of the disc. further info: iTunes 4 set in prefs to burn Data CD, Quicktime 6.2, OS X 10.2.6. is there something i'm just not getting? why will it not recognize and burn all 283? thanks :confused:

check your file in iTunes and see if you have unchecked songs, if you do and it should be 33 of them, iTunes will recognize all 283.

Tyler

[homeshire]

TyleRomeo --

indeed your suggestion was the resolution to this issue. now, on to the next issue, hence my newest post. thanks much.