iTunes for Mac OS X: Set Sleep to Never When Burning Audio CDs

Your computer may stop responding and iTunes will fail to successfully burn an audio CD if the computer or display goes to sleep.
Symptom

The computer stops responding, or "freezes," and iTunes fails to create a usable audio CD.

Solution

Update to iTunes 4.0.1 or later. The current version of iTunes can be downloaded from the iTunes download page (http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/).

Published Date: Feb 18, 2012