"Please insert a blank disc..." I HAVE!

Question

Level 1

8 points

"Please insert a blank disc..." I HAVE!

I have an iMac 2.8 Core Duo. I'm running OS 10.5.2 and iTunes 7.6.1.

I open iTunes, go to a playlist, hit the "burn disc" button and it prompts me to "Please insert a blank disc..." I do. I've insert several brands. But iTunes doesn't recognize the blank disc. It just keeps asking "Please insert a blank disc..." After a few moments I get this pop up "You inserted a blank CD. Choose an action from the pop-up menu or click Ignore. My action options are "Open iTunes", "Open Finder", and "Open Disc Utility". I've tried all three, nothing works.

Without iTunes running, if I insert the blank CD disc, it shows up on my desktop -- so I know the disc is being recognized by my iMac, but why not iTunes?

Is anyone else having a similar problem and does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Bill

iMac 2.8, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Mar 8, 2008 6:28 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Mar 8, 2008 7:37 PM in response to Montcalm

Try selecting the playlist you want to burn, select the option Burn Playlist to Disc and then insert the disc. May not make a difference, but it might.

Reply

Answer 2

Montcalm Author

Level 1

8 points

Mar 8, 2008 11:28 PM in response to Diane Wordsmith

Yeah, tried that - no luck - thanks though.

Reply

Answer 3

Mar 9, 2008 7:41 AM in response to Montcalm

What type of disc are you using?

Have you successfully burned on this machine using the same type of disc before?

You say one of your options is to "open iTunes." What happens if you choose that option?

P.S. If you're using a rewritable disc, try one that's not.

Reply

Answer 4

brunus

Level 1

25 points

May 6, 2008 8:26 AM in response to Diane Wordsmith

Hi,
same here, with latest iTunes 7.6.2. I've tried with brand new Sony CD-R and JVC CD-R: no luck. Strangely, even my Toast 7.0.2 is doing weird things: when I have no CD in the superdrive it tells me that I have a CD-RW not writable. Whenever I insert a blank cd-r, it spits it out. The only way I succeded burning a CD lately, but a ISO not a audio, is with DiskUtility.
I have the impression that's something wrong with some OS components managing the superdrive rather than the applications themselves.

Curious to know more soon.

brunus

Reply

Answer 5

May 6, 2008 1:36 PM in response to brunus

I too have had this... I can't stop it either. I have done system restores and i-tunes repairs. Nothing is working. I have done the disk diagnostics and it is fine. I don't get it. I have 7 different cd / dvd recordable types of disks here and all are doing the same. I am soooo fed up right now with i-tunes right now and I loved the program for years. HELP!!!!!

If I uninstall it totally what will happen to my music and play lists?

Reply

Answer 6

May 31, 2008 12:50 PM in response to Montcalm

I had this same problem. I realized it started after I installed Tune4Mac. So after I upgrade Tune4Mac to the latest version, I ran the uninstaller, restarted my Mac as was good to go. I imagine that any programs of software that hooks into iTunes the way Tune4Mac does can screw with the CD Burning of iTunes.

Reply

Answer 7

May 31, 2008 12:51 PM in response to Olive_Cin

I had this same problem. I realized it started after I installed Tune4Mac. So after I upgrade Tune4Mac to the latest version, I ran the uninstaller, restarted my Mac as was good to go. I imagine that any programs of software that hooks into iTunes the way Tune4Mac does can screw with the CD Burning of iTunes.

Reply

Answer 8

May 31, 2008 12:52 PM in response to Montcalm

I had this same problem. I realized it started after I installed Tune4Mac. So after I upgrade Tune4Mac to the latest version, I ran the uninstaller, restarted my Mac as was good to go. I imagine that any programs of software that hooks into iTunes the way Tune4Mac does can screw with the CD Burning of iTunes.

Reply

Answer 9

sharxfan

Level 1

0 points

Jul 21, 2008 12:13 PM in response to brunus

I had the same problem until I realized I had Toast open. Once I quit Toast iTunes recognized my blank disc and burned my playlist successfully.

Reply

Answer 10

Sep 9, 2008 6:19 PM in response to sharxfan

This was the fix for me. My wife first tried to us Toast and it referred her to iTunes. She called me in to fix it after getting this message. I put on my cape and came as fast as I could but it wasn't until I read your post that I became a super hero.

Reply