Importing AIFF to iTunes?

[kozikowski]

Do you have a SuperDrive? Can you burn DVDs if you had to?

Anyway, we're going to do a CD burner test.

Close everything down to a clean desktop.

Create a new folder on your desktop (Desktop > File > New Folder.) Call it, I don't know, test1.

Copy Stuff into this folder. Any files you can think of to take up space. We need to make a folder with 600M of files in it. Video and audio files take up space in a hurry. Keep INFO-ing the folder until it approaches 600M of Stuff. It doesn't have to be audio files. If you have a 500M Photoshop file, that counts. Enormous spreadsheets? Fine.

Put a clean, fresh, empty CD into the drive and OK the opening dialog box. The new disk should eventually appear on your desktop. Drag your new, full folder over to the empty disk and burn (either drag it to the trash can or select burn from the menus.

Do that three times. I bet your machine won't make it. You are making a Data CD and OS-X jumps through some impressive hoops to make sure everything is perfectly correct. If there is anything at all wrong with your CD burner, this test will fail.


There is one other possibility of failure without having anything broken. Are you using CD-R disks? "CD-R" is a specific type of blank disk, it's not an advertising accident. Drop by your local Staples or office supplier and pick up a short stack of Sony CD-R disks and try those. I think at one time Radio Shack carried them.

Koz