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Can't burn iTunes playlist to DVD

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doctorj

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I've gone thru 10 DVD's (-R) and keep on getting this message when burning a iTunes playlist: "The attempt to burn a disc failed.The Disk could not be read from or written to. OK"
I've tried burning in Audio, MP3 and Data but with no luck. I can play some of the DVD's on my DVD player hooked up to my TV. But my laptop doesn't recognise the DVD.
Does anyone have any suggestions?? Please.
I use cheap media but have used them many times before with no problems.
I was able to burn a audio playlist to a CD successfully.

I have iTunes 7.
I use 10.4.11 on my 1.42 14" iBook.

Thanx for your time in advance,
Greg.
 
You answered your own question. DVD's weren't made to be audio CD's. I guess you wanted larger capacity CD?
 
You can't burn an audio DVD from iTunes.

You can burn the songs to a DVD if you just set the "Burning" preferences (it's under Advanced in the iTunes prefs) to "Data Disc" rather than "Audio CD."
 
I tried all 3 options in Preferences>Advanced>Burning.
So yeah I had "Data Disc" selected and it still didn't work!
Any suggestions?
 
A 14" iBook G4.1.42 Power PC, Tiger 10.4.11. I haven't download the most recent (2008-003) security update but i have all other updates.
Any help in that info?
Cheers
4 yr time
 
I'm really just a consumer user, never used terminal...unless i got instructions simple enuf for a 8 yr old i'd be too scared i'd do the wrong thing.
Would you be able to point my to some reliable instructions? Please
 
doctorj said:
I'm really just a consumer user, never used terminal...unless i got instructions simple enuf for a 8 yr old i'd be too scared i'd do the wrong thing.
Would you be able to point my to some reliable instructions? Please
Click to expand...

Don't worry this is easy.

Just open terminal & type in drutil info & hit return.

This is just going to bring back some information, it won't break anything.
 
OK this is what i got in response:

Interconnect: ATAPI
SupportLevel: Apple Shipping
Cache: 2048k
CD-Write: -R, -RW, BUFE, CDText, Test, IndexPts, ISRC
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW, BUFE, Test
Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO

greg-james-ibook-g4:~ gregjames$

Mean anything to you??
Thanks for your help so far.
 
Using The Burn Folder? I've done this before backing stuff up.
I tried dragging the playlist into The Burn folder but the playlist wouldn't go in- i'm sure that sounds stupid to a person with Mac knowledge- is their a right way of doing this?
 
doctorj said:
Using The Burn Folder? I've done this before backing stuff up.
I tried dragging the playlist into The Burn folder but the playlist wouldn't go in- i'm sure that sounds stupid to a person with Mac knowledge- is their a right way of doing this?
Click to expand...

Well like the other guys say , I'm not sure that you can do this in itunes for just a play list...

You can select File > Back Up To Disc & backup your library that way..
 
It's just weird as I haven't had this problem before.
At the mo i've got 8.94GB's of music on my laptop so I guess I could fit them on 2 or 3 DVD's......
like I say just a bit frustrating that i've been able to do this before.
Thanx for your help.
 
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