An iTunes Nuisance. . .

King Shrek · #1 February 7th, 2004, 04:46 PM

Apple,

It gets me pretty pissed off that when burning a CD with iTunes, iTunes doesn't allow me to burn a CD that I've already previously burned songs to with iTunes.

This is a problem because there's been too many times that I haven't had enough music to fill an entire CD. The first time I realized this I had put only one song on a CD and then realized later that I couldn't burn more songs to the same CD with iTunes. That made me really mad because I realized that I had just practically wasted a CD-R! Grrrrr!

Fix it, dammit!

Sincerely,
An Angry Customer

**Giaguara** · #2 February 7th, 2004, 05:28 PM

Do you know ANY software that allows you to burn an audio cd track by track? Burning HALF or a part of the audio cd now, and continueing it later? I can't recall having seen such in any platform. :-/

King Shrek · #3 February 7th, 2004, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Giaguara

Do you know ANY software that allows you to burn an audio cd track by track? Burning HALF or a part of the audio cd now, and continueing it later? I can't recall having seen such in any platform. :-/

Even when burning an AAC or MP3 CD it won't let you burn it more than once.

**chevy** · #4 February 7th, 2004, 05:59 PM

Use CD-RW... but erasing is soooo long that you will prefer to buy a new CDR !

King Shrek · #5 February 7th, 2004, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by chevy

Use CD-RW... but erasing is soooo long that you will prefer to buy a new CDR !

Too bad CD-RW isn't comaptible with many CD players around today.

**chevy** · #6 February 8th, 2004, 03:34 AM

Coming back to your initial question.
As far as I know, the limitation of 1 write is due to the CD directory that once written cannot be re-written. Multi-session CD do have several directories, but these are not compatible with CD player neither. (a multi-session CD is a normal CD written differently). So when you finish writing your CD, you write the FINAL directory. Any unused area of your CD is definitely lost because you cannot modify the directory to tell the reader that you have new data elsewhere on the CD.

Arden · #7 February 8th, 2004, 04:21 AM

When you burn a CD using Toast, you have the option to burn disc or burn session. If you choose burn session, it only burns one session and allows other sessions to be burned. If you select burn disc, however, it will only burn the disc once, after which you will be unable to burn it again. iTunes basically uses the option of burn disc.

King Shrek · #8 February 8th, 2004, 04:23 AM

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Originally Posted by chevy

Coming back to your initial question.
As far as I know, the limitation of 1 write is due to the CD directory that once written cannot be re-written. Multi-session CD do have several directories, but these are not compatible with CD player neither. (a multi-session CD is a normal CD written differently). So when you finish writing your CD, you write the FINAL directory. Any unused area of your CD is definitely lost because you cannot modify the directory to tell the reader that you have new data elsewhere on the CD.

I have a CD-R and have been able to keep writing to it time and time again because it is still not full. I use to store my digicam pictures. Of course I just noticed that this is on a data CD-R. The CD-Rs I'm using in iTunes are audio CD-Rs. Is there a real difference here? You think if I tried burning music to a data CD-R in iTunes that it would work more than once? Hmmm.