having trouble burning music bought from iTunes, requesting help of any kind!

[dawnauvil]

hey there,

I am new to the board/forum. I heard about this through my sister, both of us are devout apple fans. My question has to do with iTunes. I have an older computer (an iMac G3) and an external burner to make cd mixes (via Toast Lite 5.0). This system works quite nicely when I want to make cd mixes from music that I already own or have received elsewhere. However, anytime I buy music from iTunes, I can not burn it to a CD-R, it always comes out at "blank space" on the CD-R. I am curious if anyone may know how to get music bought and downloaded from iTunes to burn successfuly onto a CD-R. I recently got quite a few gift certificates from iTunes for the holidays, but I feel like I can't use them, or use them only to listen to music on my computer. I would like to listen to my music other than on my desktop (as it would be kinda hard to lug around my computer, not to mention look very strange). If anyone has ANY suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it very much!!!! Thank you for your time and patience, hope to hear from whomever soon !!

-Dawn

 

[Chundles]

Toast doesn't support protected music files from the iTunes Store, you should burn your CDs with iTunes rather than Toast.

 

[CanadaRAM]

Toast doesn't support protected music files from the iTunes Store, you should burn your CDs with iTunes rather than Toast.

Except -- iApps don't generally support external third party CD-Rs.

Check www.xlr8yourmac.com for information about CD compatibility and possible software patches like Patchburn.

 

[decksnap]

Except -- iApps don't generally support external third party CD-Rs.
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Really? I've never had a problem. Imagine how many burners they have to support on PCs.

 

[balamw]

Really? I've never had a problem. Imagine how many burners they have to support on PCs.

They use a third party CD driver on Windows.

I thought patchburn wasn't needed in iLife '06 or Tiger or some combination thereof.

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[dawnauvil]

thank you canadaRAM!!

Except -- iApps don't generally support external third party CD-Rs.

Check www.xlr8yourmac.com for information about CD compatibility and possible software patches like Patchburn.

Thank you, I will try to use that web site youi mentioned. I would burn music from iTunes, but alas, I do not have an internal burner, I only have a CD-ROM with in my computer. Which is why I bought the external burner. Does iTunes make software in order to use an external burner?

 

[Chundles]

Thank you, I will try to use that web site youi mentioned. I would burn music from iTunes, but alas, I do not have an internal burner, I only have a CD-ROM with in my computer. Which is why I bought the external burner. Does iTunes make software in order to use an external burner?

Patchburn is a little app that enables the use of external burners with OSX and the iApps.