Comments on: burning need

Question: burning need

aclevername — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:00:37 -0800

I seem to be having a weird issue burning MP3s with itunes.

In the past I've created playlists specifically to burn (MP3 format) so that I can clear out some of my harddrive. However, no matter what I do, itunes never seems to want to burn the entire playlist. If I have a list of 135 songs, it'll burn 118 (random) songs.

At first a thought it was a CDR space issue, but even if I add 60 songs, it'ss burm something random like 47. There's nothing in the options or help that I can find to deal with this. Anybody know hat the problem is and how I can fix it?

By: dobbs

dobbs — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:12:10 -0800

Do all the items in the playlists have their checkbox checked?

By: themadjuggler

themadjuggler — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:24:59 -0800

Are all of the files .mp3? Perhaps MP3 CDs burn differently for .m4a and other formats.

By: aclevername

aclevername — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:25:57 -0800

Yes, but some of them get greyed out once it starts burning (even then, the checkboxes are still checked.

By: kimota

kimota — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:31:13 -0800

Are you sure you're burning mp3-only files? No 'protected' songs from the iTunes Music Store? Any aac files? Just checking....

Also, if they're all truly mp3s, have you played all of the ones that seem randomly left out?

By: nathan_teske

nathan_teske — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:23:06 -0800

Is there an exclamation point in the left most column? An (!) indicates songs which iTunes knows about but cannot find the corresponding files on disk.

By: aclevername

aclevername — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:51:44 -0800

no, no protected songs , no exclamation points, all been plyed before. Although now that you mention it, I believe a bunch are aac files from allofmp3.

Never thought of that!

By: kimota

kimota — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:17:04 -0800

Ah, as themadjuggler sussed out, iTunes can burn an Audio CD, an MP3 CD, or a Data CD (or DVD). I'm not sure why iTunes wouldn't be smart enough to allow on-the-fly conversion of AAC files into MP3s for an MP3 CD when, apparently, it can convert both MP3 and AAC when doing an Audio CD.

By: cushie

cushie — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:18:28 -0800

To clarify: In your burning options, make sure you choose data cd, not MP3 cd. MP3 cd will just skip any files in other formats, data cd will burn everything.