"the songs in this playlist will not fit" - only 63 minutes in playlist????

You cannot mix file formats unless you are burning a Data CD/DVD. What type of CD are you trying to burn - mp3 or audio?

To burn the iTS purchase in an mp3 format you will first need to burn it to an audio CD to strip out the DRM then re-rip that tune back in as an mp3/mp4 (depends on your settings). If burning to a mp3 then all the tracks must be mp3. An iTS purchase is a m4p format.

MJ

Try converting all the songs into AAC and than try to write it. i have all my library in AAC. also check the gaps between the songs. Tho i have come to this problem, whan it was a tight fit, big bitrates and long gaps. i hope you don't have a song whit a gigantic bitrate 😀 then it might not fit.

** Consistency of formats for song files should not, and historically hasn't been a problem. DO NOT CONVERT ALL YOUR MUSIC TO AAC -- you will just loose sound quality in the conversion!!!!!!!!!!!! Any file format inter-conversion is "lossy" (barring going between two lossless formats, but that's not what we're talking about here...)

I came to the board today because two of several playlists I'm interested in burning are not, and I'm getting the same message. The other playlists on the same computer burnt fine. All tracks are mpeg audio (mp3). Tried different media, even creating new playlists w/ same tracks. No purchased material on playlists.

One other thought...when burning an AUDIO CD, the large bit rate referred to above should have no effect on this situation...it is converted to an AIFF file. A larger bit rate means the conversion will have more data to choose from, but the song should end up being the same length of time regardless of the bit rate, which will only affect quality.

7.01 update has NOT fixed this problem for this computer.

Yes it will have a larger amount of data but it is also a larger file.

Figure that 1 minute of 128bit rate is equal to about 1 meg - 1 minute at the 1411 (audio) bit rate is about 10 meg.

So - 70 meg of mp3 is about 700 meg of audio (AIFF) format.

MJ

Yes it will have a larger amount of data but it is
also a larger file.

Figure that 1 minute of 128bit rate is equal to about
1 meg - 1 minute at the 1411 (audio) bit rate is
about 10 meg.

So - 70 meg of mp3 is about 700 meg of audio (AIFF)
format.

MJ

Well, that would only be true if you were burning a DATA or an MP3 disk. All audio files are converted to CDA format (not AIFF) before burning to 16bit PCM @ 44.1KHZ sampling rate. This is an absolute, or they will not play in an audio CD player.

By the way, the reason that some people get a bit confused by the "700mb data or 80minutes of Audio" has a lot to do with how the disks are written:
Audio sectors use 2352 bytes per sector, while standard CD-ROM data uses 2048 (the rest is for error correction). You can put roughly 747MB of audio onto a disc that only holds 650MB of data (74 Min disk), or 804Mb on a 700Mb disk, hence the 80minutes @ 10meg per minute. The number of tracks (and hence track gaps @ 2sec each) will have a minor effect on total music playing time.

There IS, however, something seriously askew with iTunes and the interface to burning any kind of disk. I have seen the same problem a few times and most of the time, renaming the playlist (for whatever reason) has solved the problem. It has been well documented on this board that itunes cannot record at high speeds any longer, and my 100% success rate speed is a mere 2x on both CD's and DVD's.

I have also seen the capacity issue show up OUTSIDE of iTunes using FlashDrives. While the OS doesn't have a problem reading data from the drives, nor does it have difficulty in acertaining the capacity of the drives, it will not write anywhere close to the capacity of the drive. Currrently affecting all 3 systems here.


iMac G5, Mac Mini, Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I am having the same problem, even with version 7.0.2!
Very irritating!

7.01 update has NOT fixed this problem for this
computer.

I came to this board for the same reason. I was told 7.0.1 would fix the problem, but it did not. I have also found the problem is getting worse. I am now down to only two songs per cd before I get the error msg