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I have iTunes 6.0.4 (3) on a G4. No problems for years. I just tried to
burn a playlist to a CD-RW and the application continually "Checks
Media". I can't get it to burn. The media is blank and fresh; I saw on
the net that perhaps it is necessary to burn to CD-RW in only 1-4X, so
I put one of those slower speed discs in to no avail.
Any suggestions? My burner is an internal Pioneer 110D.
Thanks for any help,
Paul

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In article <1144433047.606855.217990@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "Paul Soderman" <kidpocono@aol.com> wrote:

I have iTunes 6.0.4 (3) on a G4. No problems for years. I just tried to
burn a playlist to a CD-RW and the application continually "Checks
Media". I can't get it to burn. The media is blank and fresh; I saw on
the net that perhaps it is necessary to burn to CD-RW in only 1-4X, so
I put one of those slower speed discs in to no avail.
Any suggestions? My burner is an internal Pioneer 110D.

They say this drive and some software working together need Patchburn <http://www.patchburn.de/download.html> to work. Have you tried that?

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Hans Aberg
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In article <1144433047.606855.217990@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Paul Soderman <kidpocono@aol.com> wrote:

I have iTunes 6.0.4 (3) on a G4. No problems for years. I just tried to
burn a playlist to a CD-RW and the application continually "Checks
Media". I can't get it to burn. The media is blank and fresh...
My burner is an internal Pioneer 110D.

Hmmm... It *could* be a hardware problem, but it seems unlikely on a
fairly new Pioneer drive like that. (Although any hardware can fail,
of course.)

What happens when you try and just burn a folder from the Finder? Will
that work?

Also, do you have a CD-R (not -RW) you can sacrifice, to see if that
makes any difference? (When my original DVR-104 in my iMac died, its
first symptom was that it couldn't calibrate the laser to write to a
CD-RW disc, but would still write to CD-R.)

I saw on the net that perhaps it is necessary to burn to CD-RW in
only 1-4X, so I put one of those slower speed discs in to no avail.

Nah, if you're using 10X CD-RW media in that drive, it should burn fine
at 10X. Even the crappy Memorex CD-RW I bought to use as in-car CDs
work fine in the Pioneer. :D I wouldn't bother with the 1-4X media
if your drive doesn't require it; this is a different issue, I believe.


Another possibility is that there's something corrupted in your system.
Have you run the Disk Utility disk and permission repairs? It might be
worth giving that a shot, although that one's unlikely to be the
problem. I'd also suggest trying to burn it with something that
*doesn't* use the system's disc burning routines, to help rule out
whether a system reinstall might be in order. Do you own Toast, by
chance? Can you try burning a disc with it?

If not, and you don't want to spring for the $100 for Toast, you can
download a demo version of Dragon Burn, so you can at least test the
burner with some other software. You can do that here:

<http://www.ntius.com/default.asp?p=download/download_prod&prod=dburn4&v er=trial>

Good luck. Let us know what happens with the above tests; that'll help troubleshoot it.

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Garner R. Miller
Clifton Park, NY =USA=
http://www.garnermiller.com/
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On 2006-04-07 21:04:07 +0300, "Paul Soderman" <kidpocono@aol.com> said:

I have iTunes 6.0.4 (3) on a G4. No problems for years. I just tried to
burn a playlist to a CD-RW and the application continually "Checks
Media". I can't get it to burn. The media is blank and fresh; I saw on
the net that perhaps it is necessary to burn to CD-RW in only 1-4X, so
I put one of those slower speed discs in to no avail.
Any suggestions? My burner is an internal Pioneer 110D.
Thanks for any help,
Paul

Is it 10.4.6 OS X? I mean system build...

Weird, exactly same thing happened to me (CDRW- Apple
supplied/supported combo) today. Even hours ago.

There is a bug with CDRW burning on 10.4.6?

My suggestion is:
check http://www.macfixit.com for similar reports, read and

https://bugreporter.apple.com

I will do very same thing tomorrow. I don't have time left to check
"how it works" if I try with Path Finder 4 (latest). It can burn MP3s
to Audio CD too. If Path Finder fails, it is OS bug, if it doesn't, it
is iTunes bug.

Have a nice day

Ilgaz

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In article <49o0u4FotggoU4@individual.net>, Ilgaz Ocal
<ilgaz_ocal@yahoo.com> wrote:

I have iTunes 6.0.4 (3) on a G4. No problems for years. I just tried to burn a playlist to a CD-RW and the application continually "Checks Media"....

Is it 10.4.6 OS X? I mean system build...

Weird, exactly same thing happened to me (CDRW- Apple
supplied/supported combo) today. Even hours ago.

Hmmm... now you guys have me intrigued; I haven't burned a CD-RW since
updating to 10.4.6.

So I tried it, using a cheapo Memorex CD-RW (12X) disc, in my
aftermarket Pioneer 110D in my iMac G4. (Same drive as the OP.)

It worked fine. I tried it a couple of times, with no issues. It did "Checking Media" for about five seconds, then it did its thing, burning
the disc successfully.

So there must be more to it than just the OS. I did notice one change
from 10.4.5 to 10.4.6 -- this DVR-110D, in System Profiler, is now
listed as "Apple Support/Shipped," which wasn't the case before. Not
sure if that's related or not. What model of burner are you using?

I didn't see anything related on Macfixit just yet, but the update's
fairly new, and I know a lot of folks (myself included) don't use the
-RW's that often. It may take a little time for the problem to surface
if it's not just a fluke.

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Garner R. Miller
Clifton Park, NY =USA=
http://www.garnermiller.com/
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In article <070420061655382508%garner@netstreet.net>, Garner Miller <garner@netstreet.net> wrote:

So there must be more to it than just the OS. I did notice one change
from 10.4.5 to 10.4.6 -- this DVR-110D, in System Profiler, is now
listed as "Apple Support/Shipped," which wasn't the case before. Not
sure if that's related or not. What model of burner are you using?

I think this might be a support problem, because the drive in question was earlier listed as "not supported by Mac OS X, but to be; use PatchBurn in
the meantime". So an upgrade to 10.4.6 should probably be tried.

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Hans Aberg
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In article <haberg-0804060158350001@c83-250-195-81.bredband.comhem.se>,
Hans Aberg <haberg@math.su.se> wrote:

In article <070420061655382508%garner@netstreet.net>, Garner Miller <garner@netstreet.net> wrote:

So there must be more to it than just the OS. I did notice one change
from 10.4.5 to 10.4.6 -- this DVR-110D, in System Profiler, is now
listed as "Apple Support/Shipped," which wasn't the case before. Not
sure if that's related or not. What model of burner are you using?

I think this might be a support problem, because the drive in question was earlier listed as "not supported by Mac OS X, but to be; use PatchBurn in
the meantime". So an upgrade to 10.4.6 should probably be tried.

Interesting...

Although I should point out that under 10.4.5, the DVR-110D *did* still
work fine for me with iTunes, and I've never used Patchburn. Under
System Profiler, under Disc Burning, it had this entry:

Burn Support: Yes (Unsupported)

...and now, under 10.4.6:

Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)


So the OS could use this burner even before the 10.4.6 upgrade, and I
did so, many times (with both iTunes and iDVD). I wonder what really
changed?

The plot thickens....

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Garner R. Miller
Clifton Park, NY =USA=
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In article <070420062225360327%garner@netstreet.net>, Garner Miller <garner@netstreet.net> wrote:

In article <070420061655382508%garner@netstreet.net>, Garner Miller <garner@netstreet.net> wrote:

So there must be more to it than just the OS. I did notice one change from 10.4.5 to 10.4.6 -- this DVR-110D, in System Profiler, is now
listed as "Apple Support/Shipped," which wasn't the case before. Not sure if that's related or not. What model of burner are you using?

I think this might be a support problem, because the drive in question was earlier listed as "not supported by Mac OS X, but to be; use PatchBurn in the meantime". So an upgrade to 10.4.6 should probably be tried.

Interesting...

Although I should point out that under 10.4.5, the DVR-110D *did* still
work fine for me with iTunes, and I've never used Patchburn. Under
System Profiler, under Disc Burning, it had this entry:

Burn Support: Yes (Unsupported)

...and now, under 10.4.6:

Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)

This is good to hear. This Pioneer DVR-110 was in another thread quoted as
not having any overheating problems, unlike other burners, like those from LaCie. So it seems one to go for, if it is now supported by Mac OS X.

So the OS could use this burner even before the 10.4.6 upgrade, and I
did so, many times (with both iTunes and iDVD).  I wonder what really changed?

The plot thickens....

I think it might be license issues involved. Apple has to pay license fees
for every internal DVD to the German consortium that made the MPEG
standard, it was said here before.

But I saw a note early last yaer that Mac OS X support for DVR-110 would
arrive last summer, and what you say suggest that support did arrive
though merely very quietly in the form of Mac OS 10.4.5-6, but perhaps not exactly on time. So perhaps there is nothing strange going on here, but
normal development delays.

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Hans Aberg
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Thanks for the support and help on this!
I just installed 10.4.6 and it seems to have solved the problem.
I have a feeling that the 110D drive (which I installed only a couple
of months ago and had not used to try a burn from iTunes to CD-RW, but
had used without trouble to burn to CD-RW and CD-R with Toast before
this) indeed had been "unsupported" by Apple, as per the info I found
in the System Profiler. Apparently the recent updater took care of this
since the Profiler now reports "Burn Support: Yes (Apple
Shipped/Supported)" and iTunes burned to the CD-RW after only a few
seconds wait for "Checking Media".
Thanks again, all;
Paul

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