Burn CD icon missing from iTunes 10

This happens also when I use the Toast Titanium program, so maybe it is a glitch in the writing capabilities of the external optical drive?

This is What you guys do the buttons are not missing, they set them up differently.

Step 1. Create you're own playlist

Step 2. Grab a blank dics.

Step 3. After you have created you're playlist and have you're cd, inject it into the computer.

Step 4. (INPORTANT) SAVE PLAYLIST, AND THEN RIGHT CLICK ON YOU'RE PLAYLIST THAT YOU WANT TO BURN. AFTER YOU RIGHT CLICK YOU'RE PLAYLIST A LIST SHOULD COME UP GIVING YOU THE OPTION TO SELECT (BURN PLAYLIST TO DISC).

Final step. A window should pop up on you're screen giving you options on what format to put the cd in.

And their you have it. Have fun and good luck.

Yeah, I too am frustrated with how Apple has obscured and complicated the burning process. I really don't want to have to make a playlist of an existing album instead of the old way when you could just select the album in your library and burn from there.

So you know what? The heck with iTunes. When I want to burn I use Toast which gives you more control and feedback about the size of your files relevant to the size of th CD, etc. plus you can burn MP3 CDs using Toast.

Hope that helps. But COMPLAIN is still a good thing for us all to do...

Steven Shmerler wrote:

Yeah, I too am frustrated with how Apple has obscured and complicated the burning process.

It is no different than it has been (except the Burn button is not displayed)..

I really don't want to have to make a playlist of an existing album instead of the old way when you could just select the album in your library and burn from there.

This was never an option in iTunes.

A playlist was ALWAYS required to burn a CD.

But COMPLAIN is still a good thing for us all to do...

No it's not. It simply clutters up the forum with waste

You can send suggestions to Apple here -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

though it's not clear what you want to suggest.

Chris, i hate to disagree, but you used to be able to select the songs you wanted to burn from your Library and the burn icon in the lower right would become active and you clicked it and burned. Easy. Simple.

You did not have to create a playlist. Unless I'm completely forgetting. But I don't think so. If so, my apologies. I don't remember how many versions ago this was, but it was awhile ago, that much I remember, as in the earlier days of iTunes.

As far as complaining, I didn't mean complain here. That would be, agreed, a waste of Discussion space not to mention ineffective as I don't think Apple scours Discussions looking for complaints.

I meant, and see now perhaps I wasn't clear, I meant complain using the CONTACT US link at the bottom right found on any page on the Apple site. On the Contact Us page on the lower right is a list of contact links. Choose Product Feedback and in the middle of that page under "OSX Apps" is an icon for iTunes - top row center. Click that, fill in the form page and express your feelings.

Sorry if I wasn't clear and confused you and others.

Steven Shmerler wrote:

Chris, i hate to disagree, but you used to be able to select the songs you wanted to burn from your Library and the burn icon in the lower right would become active and you clicked it and burned. Easy. Simple.

You did not have to create a playlist. Unless I'm completely forgetting.

I'm pretty sure you are completely forgetting.

The icon was there but in order to click it, you had to select a playlist.

It was a long time ago and you could be totally right. Besides it's hard to argue with a Level 9. You're kinda in the "we're not worthy" league 😀

So if you are sure, then I defer. I just don't remember going thru the extra step. But... I must be wrong. Thanks for remembering.

If you had created a playlist for an album when you first imported it, you would not need to create another playlist.

Creating a playlist for every album is not needed (but some do this for hundreds/thousands of albums because they think it's somehow "easier").

Chris, so if you imported a new album and didn't create a playlist, are you saying that you COULD burn the album by choosing the album in your Library? Or just that if you didn't create the playlist, you had to and then you'd have both the playlist of all the songs in a particular album which would be a total duplicate to the album folder in the Library.

Steven Shmerler wrote:

Chris, so if you imported a new album and didn't create a playlist, are you saying that you COULD burn the album by choosing the album in your Library?

I'm not Chris, but NO that is not the case and never has been.

Steven Shmerler wrote:

Or just that if you didn't create the playlist, you had to and then you'd have both the playlist of all the songs in a particular album which would be a total duplicate to the album folder in the Library.

Yes, if you import an album you have always had to also create a playlist for the album in order to burn it to a CD. This is an extra step, and a duplication, but it's always been that way with iTunes.

Steven Shmerler wrote:

Chris, so if you imported a new album and didn't create a playlist, are you saying that you COULD burn the album by choosing the album in your Library?

No you could not.

Or just that if you didn't create the playlist, you had to and then you'd have both the playlist of all the songs in a particular album which would be a total duplicate to the album folder in the Library.

You have always had to create a playlist to burn a CD.

Some people when they add an album to iTunes, create a playlist of that album when they 1st add it to iTunes.

Creating a playlist does not make a duplicate of anything. It simply adds a playlist which is pretty much not needed since you can select the album in the iTunes browser.

A playlis tis simply that. A list of songs which are in the library

If you add the same song to 100 different playlists, the song is sttill in the library only 1 time.