[need2know]

Have 12 month old Advent laptop with dvd, which I have never used to copy files, only watched one dvd on it.

Purchased some music in itunes, made a playlist and want to burn it to cd-r, for use in car etc.

Bought 5 new Sony cd's, have wasted 2, as command either tells me I have a"write error", or to insert a blank cd (when I already have !)
Went into itunes and did their diagnostic test on a prerecorded cd, and passed all tests.

Beginners questions :
1) Do I have to format the cd's first, if so, how ?
2) Can I use a cd, as it is a dvd player
3) Any idea what I may be doing wrong ?

Thankyou

[Byteman]

Hi,

You can use CD's in a DVD burner.
No, formatting is done only on CDRW discs....Read, Write, and Re-writable ones can be "erased" but not regular CD-R's.


Burning CDs> http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/art...-cd-in-itunes/

http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/I...es/burnCD.html

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2239

http://www.jakeludington.com/itunes/...ore_files.html

[need2know]

Thankyou,
Will check out those sites, and hopefully get back as solved ! or if not, will let you know

[need2know]

Hi again
Tried out the 4 help sites, followed instructions, no luck

Highlighted playlist, all tunes are checked, after clicking "burn disc", top of itune menu says "initialising disc", then it ejects the cd with "can't burn disc - unknown error" ???, and continues to do this each time (error code 2131) - not sure if that helps

[need2know]

In the end, had to copy playlist to a cd-rw, then copy that to my windows media library, then rip it off, then burn onto the audio cd !! Took about 2 hours in all, but I suppose there is always another way around these things AAARRRgh Thanks