Now for something slightly different - it isn't a thread where people wish to know how to connect their network, dual boot or do anything as exciting - it's this:

I use iTunes as my main media player - I have several playlists on it, and wanted to copy two playlists onto a CDR as usual.

I had 683MB (it was a 700MB capacity), worth of music - in iTunes, I changed it to copy as an MP3 CD - although it looked at it, and ejected the disc, and a msg box - error 261 "iTunes has failed to burn the disc" appeared; after Googling - nothing.

I tried this in Nero - it worked, but alas Nero treats MP3 discs as a data disc (even though in the options you tell it to burn as an MP3) - alas, it wouldn't play on iTunes - even more interestingly, was that I believed it was copying individual mp3 files - you know - 'Welcome To The North.mp3', 'Sultans Of Swing.mp3' , and so on and so forth, but when it popped out (finalised), on Real Player - yes I know it's bloated crap, but...

I popped the disc in my DVD Player - and it was clear that it copied as a data as it was only a very long track 1... (and nothing else).

I've even tried this on another CDRW... The DVD-RW isn't knackered, as regular CD --CDR is Ok...

Any ideas? Cheers


PS - iTunes version 5 -

Does i-tunes put larger gaps of nothing between each song file than Nero? (it can't put any less, if Nero squeezes it all on as one track..)

Originally posted by beansforyou
Does i-tunes put larger gaps of nothing between each song file than Nero? (it can't put any less, if Nero squeezes it all on as one track..)

The interesting thing, is that the track is silent - (data track), but somehow Nero has created a data disc, and not a MP3 disc...

Very odd - especially as both iTunes & Nero are playing up.

:suspect: Well it weren't me :suspect:

Google came up with...

"Burn the iTunes to a music CD (CD audio format = max. 80 minutes for a 700MB disc) using the iTunes burning program. Then rip the CD back to your computer and convert to any format you wish. You can use a CD-RW disk if you wish.

The other way is to play the iTunes tracks and record them as they play. You can do this using DMC's Auxilliary Input feature."

Never having been tempted to use iTunes, I've no idea if this makes sense! ;)