Can I add a song to a burned CD?

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Can I add a song to a burned CD?

Hello: I burned a CD. However, one of the songs on the playlist was unchecked (my mistake) and didn't get on the CD. I would just like to add that one song to the burned CD but cannot figure out how. Is it possible? It keeps telling me to insert a blank CD.

Thanks for any answers.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Oct 22, 2010 7:46 PM

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Answer 1

roaminggnome

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Oct 22, 2010 7:47 PM in response to ambc

I am all but sure that this cannot be done.

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ambc Author

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Oct 22, 2010 9:07 PM in response to roaminggnome

ah well. It seems like it should be possible, but thank you very much for your response.

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Answer 3

Oct 23, 2010 6:43 AM in response to ambc

usually when you make a CD it gets finalized after it's being burned, so the playback will stop with the end of the last track.
You could make un-finalized CDs with Roxio Toast, but that a whole different story.

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Oct 24, 2010 4:08 AM in response to jeeper01ca

It is possible to create multi-session CDs in Mac OS X using Disk Utility. See this article:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1749.html

However, this may not - probably does not - apply to iTunes.

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Oct 24, 2010 4:26 AM in response to christopher rigby1

It is possible to create multi-session CDs in Mac OS X using Disk Utility

Of course this applies to data CDs, not audio CDs. (The OP doesn't state which he was making.)

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ed2345

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Oct 26, 2010 11:40 PM in response to ambc

For audio CDs, it cannot be done.

The process of burning an audio CD includes a section called "Table Of Contents" that refers to the other songs and is burned onto the CD at the same time. So once the burn is done, there is no way to add more songs and still have a playable audio CD.

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