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I'm trying to back-up my iTunes purchases. When I try to do this in version 7.3, I get the mysterious \"Error 261\" where the burn failed for \"unknown reasons.\"

Hooray for cryptic Apple error messages?

Now, on Google, it says this has to do with iTunes following an odd CD standard, ISO 9660, that prevents playlists from containing characters like apostrophes and such. This error has existed since at least 2005 and is as yet unaccounted for in iTunes' programming.

Hooray for bizarre Apple programming zeal?

So, my question is, how exactly do I fix this? I want to back up just the purchases. The program seems hardcoded to look for the Purchased folder for that. Do I actually have to rename each track? Is there some location I can just navigate to in Windows to grab the tracks?

Kyouryuu wrote:Now, on Google, it says this has to do with iTunes following an odd CD standard, ISO 9660, that prevents playlists from containing characters like apostrophes and such. This error has existed since at least 2005 and is as yet unaccounted for in iTunes' programming.

Hooray for bizarre Apple programming zeal?

Heh -- ISO 9660 is the original CD ROM file system standard. MS invented the Joliet extension that's mostly being used today. If iTunes doesn't support that (I wouldn't be surprised if they don't on purpose..) you indeed have to change all the names

Check the 1st link for 9660 restrictions in names, directory depth etc.

Your \"Purchased folder\" is just a dumb smart playlist. It just gets all the .m4p files as they are added to your library (you can remove them at any time, hence the phrase \"dumb smart playlist\"). You could easily do a find on C:\\Documents and Settings\\YourUserName\\My Documents\\My Music\\iTunes\\iTunes Music\\*.m4p (or if you have your iTunes library somewhere else...).

Sure enough, there they are. Thanks!

ugh.. it should be illigal to have media players that require software to run on your machine.