Burn To A CD Twice?

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Burn To A CD Twice?

I am new to iTunes, and apologize if this is an obvious question. I have burned one song to a CD. It worked, and I would now like to burn additional songs to the same CD. When I tried to do so, iTunes reported (correctly) that the disc is "not blank". Does that mean that songs cannot be added to a disc even if there is space enough? That is, that once burned to, even with just a single song, a disc cannot be burned to again? Thanks.

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Posted on Oct 3, 2006 12:57 PM

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Oct 3, 2006 1:22 PM in response to zoofence

Does that mean that songs cannot be added to a disc even if there is space enough? That is, that once burned to, even with just a single song, a disc cannot be burned to again?

That's exactly right. iTunes does not support "multi-session" burning and once you burn a playlist (even a playlist of one song) the session is over and the disc is closed.

Even with CD-RW's that's the case although you do have the alternative of erasing the Disc (via Windows, not iTunes) and then starting over again.

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Chris CA

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Oct 3, 2006 1:23 PM in response to zoofence

That is, that once burned to, even with just a single song, a disc cannot be burned to again?
Correct.
Any reason you are burning only one song onto a CD?

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zoofence Author

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Oct 4, 2006 2:07 PM in response to Chris CA

Thank you both for your responses.

Chris CA asked, "Any reason you are burning only one song onto a CD?" I had been having difficulty burning (about which, please see my two posts at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=670534&tstart=0), and in the process of finding a work-around to the problem, I tested the process with a single song. When I finally had a solution, I also had a CD with a single song on it (as it happens, "The Weight" by The Band)!

Now it is working fine, and I know to wait until I have a playlist before burning.

Thanks again.

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