Itunes Won't Burn Audio CD - Slow!

Hi
Dell Inspiron 700m running XP Pro- itunes 8.x (needed to get Touch to sync) CDs won't burn- uninstalled itunes- reinstalled 7.5- can now burn cds- but can't sync Touch. Slowly progressed in iTunes versions to 8.x now can't burn- but Touch will sync. Any thoughts- I have uninstalled Quicktime- and used QTA. Thanks

I also replied to the other discussion, but I would like to mention that without being able to convert itunes purchases the itunes store is currently incredibly useless to me, I will no longer purchase anything until the Apple people fix this problem. Not to mention that I am now concerned that I will technically surpass the 7 cd limit without actually having burned any of the songs.

This trail exactly describes my problem discovered just today. This is a nightmare having worked all week to produce a special playlist for an upcoming high school reunion. That playlist needs to go to CDs. Have Vista Ultimate OS and iTunes 8.2.1.6. Can do about everything else fine but if I try to burn a CD (something I could do easily previously) than the CD drive locks up completely part way through and cannot be open without a reboot of the laptop. I tried a number of write speeds but it doesn't help. For a 14 song CD, lock up may occur in different places but never finishes. I do not know what this has done to the copy count vis a vis the 7 copy limit on some songs purchased from iTunes Store. So far, best solution sounds like trying to get back to an instance of iTunes 8.0 but would prefer a fix from Apple.

I have Windows XP with the latest version of iTunes downloaded just tonight...I have version 8.2.1.6. I did a library backup tonight of my daughter's iTunes library to move it to her new laptop. Seemed to burn fine, said it was finished, but it did not eject the disc. Hitting "eject disc" does nothing. There is no response. Here I sit with a DVD in the drive and have no clue how to get it out!

Most cd/sdvd drives have an emergency cd release thing. This is what mine did to the first cd. Basically have to push a small straight thing (I used a stretched out paper clip) in a small hole in the drive. Now that you burned that one cd, I bet like me you won't be able to do it again!

I have been able to burn another CD...just made a music CD for my car....but again, the disc won't eject no matter what I do.
Has anyone seen a "fix" for this? I've done multiple searches and can't come up with anything. It's getting to be a pain to reboot the computer whenever I want to get the CD out of the burner!

I spoke too soon...it appeared to burn the CD. All the songs were listed in the playlist, but when I tried playing it in the same drive where it was burned, only the first 5 songs were burned...then the next 13 were blank.

Ah, but I found a way of getting the CD out without rebooting. I went to Help>Run Diagnostics. It told me that there was nothing wrong with the CD burner/player and detected everything. And when it was done, I hit the eject button on the drive and it opened.

However, I cannot burn CDs anymore...so that means no more backing up to CDs or DVDs. Now iTunes needs to come up with a simple way of backing up to an external HD!

And incidentally, I can burn a CD using WMP and it ejects when done. The only thing is, it doesn't put titles of songs on the disk, so when I play it in iTunes I have Track 1, Track 2, etc. I assume I have to put those in manually.
And I can't export purchased songs from iTunes. Maybe I'll have to buy from Amazon.com from now on and import them into iTunes so that I can possibly burn them to CD at some point.

But this is a pain...

So, what's up with iTunes and the burning issues with 8.2???

I have been able to burn CD's by changing the burn speed to 8x. Sure takes longer but it does work. I don't have the issue of the CD not ejecting, getting locked in the drive, etc...but at least I can burn a CD if needed.

I have uninstalled 8.2.1.6 and installed 8.1.1. Unfortunately, it now tells me that my library (.itl) file cannot be used because it was made with the newer version. (i.e. 8.2.1.6 modified the library after it was installed apparently using a modified format that is not backward compatible). This is a nightmare instituted by Apple. To put out a version that is incompatible with a widely used operating system and then modify the database format so that one can never return to some version that works seems at best to be uncaring of its customer base and at worst seems like a low blow against Windows users. I also own a Mac and a couple Apple iPods so consider myself a money paying customer but may never spend money with them again if I don't find a fix for the problem of not being able to burn CDs with iTunes 8.2.1.6 running under Windows Vista. I will try to reinstall latest iTunes but doubt that will help. Any suggestions?

I reinstalled 8.2.1.6 and have been able to burn a playlist to a couple of CDs. One at a speed of 8X and one at maximum speed available. I have verified the contents of the CDs so this seems to have fixed the problem. This suggests that maybe there was something that stepped on whatever iTunes placed during the original installation to get to the CD player. I am not aware of any other software that went on my machine between the time it would work and the time it wouldn't. So, if you have a problem burning CDs with Vista and iTunes 8.2.1.6, suggest you uninstall iTunes and reinstall it.

I reinstalled 8.2.1.6 and have had no problems burning CDs. Thanks!

reinstalled without success. aggravating.

I have it set to 24x and not the Max Speed and I also have the CD Text checked and it works fine. Max Speed setting cause the won't burn and unable to

Another way to get the CD to eject, is to use the Switch User option.