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Panthergal · 03-Nov-2009, 02:40 PM #1

I am beyond frustrated. What used to be an easy program to use to burn music has now become a real pain. Everytime I go to burn a CD of music on my WMP11, it says it doesn't recognize that I have a blank CD in and ejects the CD. I have made many CD's with WMP in the past, but now something has gone wrong and it won't let me burn anything. I am using Windows XP.

I have called Dell to troubleshoot and the DVD/CD is working. It will burn data CD's and on a rare occassion, it will burn a music CD. I have looked on many forums and tried many different solutions, including reducing the recording speed, but nothing works. I have Roxio and hate it. It doesn't even have a quarter of my downloaded music and is a pain to record CD's on, so I would like to stick with WMP 11 if I could. All advice would be appreciated

Nebastion · 03-Nov-2009, 07:23 PM #2

Hi welcome to TSG.

Did this happen after an Win Update??

Panthergal · 03-Nov-2009, 08:24 PM #3

No it didn't. It just radomly started happening months ago and has progressively gotten worse to the point where I can't burn a music CD.

vicks · 03-Nov-2009, 08:47 PM #4

Have you tried a different brand of cds? Our pc will recognize only a couple of brands of cds. Works good with them but doesn't see others
vicks

Panthergal · 03-Nov-2009, 09:01 PM #5

I tried about three different types of CD's. Just tried another one in fact. It started the burning process; preparing/pending then went straight to finalizing disc saying the burn process was complete. But I got an error message saying :"Windows Medial Player cannot burn the files to the CD. Verify the disc is clean and not damaged. If necessary select a slower recording speed of different brand of CD's". I have done that.

peck1234 · 03-Nov-2009, 09:06 PM #6

Try itunes...

Panthergal · 03-Nov-2009, 09:16 PM #7

I hadn't thought of that. Will all my newly downloaded music be on iTunes?

peck1234 · 03-Nov-2009, 09:34 PM #8

you can add it manuelly...

once itunes is installed, go to edit, prefences, advanced, and check copy files to music folder...

then simply drag all your downloaded music into itunes...

Panthergal · 03-Nov-2009, 10:04 PM #9

I am going to try this. I will keep you posted. Thanks!

peck1234 · 03-Nov-2009, 10:34 PM **#10**

your welcome....

after you drag the files to itunes you can delete the source files because they will now be in your itunes music folder...

Panthergal · 03-Nov-2009, 10:41 PM **#11**

I am unfortunately having trouble downloading itunes. I downloaded Quicktime, which was required to download itunes. But after I download itunes, it says it can't continue until I download Quicktime! Every step I take seems to get more confusing.

vicks · 03-Nov-2009, 11:15 PM **#12**

You might try CDBurnerXP. It is available at www.majorgeeks.com and www.download.com.
I had to use it on one our our computers. Works good.
Vicks

Panthergal · 03-Nov-2009, 11:39 PM **#13**

Thanks for the advice. I'm willing to try almost anything at this point.

peck1234 · 04-Nov-2009, 06:24 PM **#14**

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Itunes automatically installs quicktime... if the installation fails please uninstall quicktime from your computer, reboot, then install...

Also may I recommend a scan with malwarebytes...

Link Below...

Panthergal · 04-Nov-2009, 07:26 PM **#15**

I will try the malware link. Something is amiss with my computer. I gave up around midnight last night trying to figure this out. Still didn't get itunes working. I'll unistall quicktime and try again. I did try to uninstall itunes, but it wouldn't let me. Thank you for your time with my problem(s)

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