this, my friends, is the mix.

iTunes update warning!!!

If any of you haven't updated to the newest version of iTunes (iTunes 6), DON'T! Since updating, I'm having massive problems burning CDs -- I've only been able to burn one entire copy of my mix, and it burned with a ridiculous amount of static. Before you assume that I'm computer illiterate, or something, you should know that I spent a lot of time on the Mac support forums trying to solve the problem, and it seems to be a very common issue with the latest iTunes update; tons of people who never before had problems burning CDs now are. It's not my burner, as I can burn data disks from the Finder just fine, and I never had a problem with this before updating iTunes. It's not a size issue, as my final mix is 77 minutes and 783 MB.

I just got off the phone with Mac support. First they repeatedly insisted that it MUST be because I'd bought the songs off iTunes, and burned them more than 7 times, despite my repeated assertions that NONE of the songs were purchased through Tunes (which totally reminded me of one time in college when I wasn't feeling well and went to the health center, where they kept insisting that my problem must be that I was pregnant and that I should really take a pregnancy test, even though I kept explaining to them that I was ON THE RAG AT THE TIME). After I finally got through to them that permissioins/copyright wasn't the issue, their only suggestion was that I try a different brand of CD-Rs. Which might work -- though, c'mon, I've been using Memorexes, not some cheapy brand or anything -- but if it doesn't you might have to live with getting one CD (18 tracks) worth of tracks on two CDs, as that's the only thing that seems to work. And I wanted to warn you all, so you don't end up wasting as many CD-Rs (and time) as I have trying to figure this out!

xx, erin