Itunes and NEC 2100 DVD/RW (error 2131)

After doing a search for error 2131 on the iTunes for Windows forum, it appears there is no fix for this error as of yet. It may be of little comfort to know that you are not the only one with this problem.

So Dell says it is an itunes problem and itunes says it is a Dell problem.

So this translates to it is no one's problem except the people who foolishly bought a Dell with a NEC 2100 drive and an ipod.

I guess we are the only losers in this one, Dell and Apple already have our money!

Melanie

I believe this is more an Itunes problem.  They can't deny that Itunes is the only software that has this issue.  I've used almost every cd burning program out there from Napster to Nero to Jukebox and I have no problem at all burning cd's of my favorite songs. 

Itunes has a better interface than Napster.  But as painful as it was I moved to Napster simply to be able to burn the songs I puchased and own.  The only real thing bad about Napster is the inability to import your CD's, they also have a subscription service for $9.99 that you have to pay if you want to use their message boards.  No thanks.

!@#$ like this is why people stay on the free p2p networks.  Why try to fix something that is not broken?  Clearly we have an issue here that needs to be fixed right now.

 

HP

I fixed it. But I think I had to break it to do so. Roxio no longer recognizes my drive as a viable burning location, but I didn't use it anyway. Its up to you. Here's what I changed: 1. I went into the registry and removed the upper and lower limits (the upper limits look like they were set by GEAR, the apple engine ppl). location of reg keys: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/en-us 2. I deleted itunes and re-installed it (again, I had tried it before). This re-established the upper limit. So now you have an upper limit but not a lower limit key. 3. I had been using imation CD+R cds, I went and spent some more to buy Sony CD+RW cds to try. 4. Changed the itunes burn speed to 24x( it worked but instead of only taking 2-3 minutes it now takes 14 min.), I did go back and set it back to maximum speed and it continued to work at the same speed. american18us