[Panthergal]

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]

Hi welcome to TSG.

Did this happen after an Win Update??

[Panthergal]

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]

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]

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]

Try itunes...

[Panthergal]

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

[peck1234]

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]

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

[peck1234]

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]

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]

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]

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

[peck1234]

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]

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)