I know this prob. has been posted before, but non of the pre-answers helped me. My fusion has been working perfectly for sereral month but all of a sudden I can´t burn Cd´s no more. Whenever I hit the "burn playlist onto a audio CD" button I get this message: "Unable to initialize CD-R engine"

I reinstalled MMF
I reinstalled my CD-R driver.
I installed the GEAR CD-RW 7.0 trail

Nothing helped and Im´slowly getting insane...

OK, I found a tread dealing with this issue. It looks like its national secret how to solve it??
Anyways a guy tried to install alcohol 120% and got the damn thing working.....and it worked!

And now it´s not working again

I don't believe it's a national secret, I believe it's hardware/driver related.

Since none of us are hardware/driver programmers this topic is usually pushed off to the official MM support, since they are the ones with the know how.

Year - but still it´s a bit silly to wait for a support-answer, since it´s a returning prob. for users.
I have dealt whit this for a week now; sometimes it works, sometimes not?? Don´t understand??
I now just export to files and then burn with Nero or winamp marking the "burn without gabs between numbers".

let me get this straight,

you've been dealing with this for a week now, and decided to export every mix to file, then burn with a 3rd party app, instead of sending one e-mail to support.

I wonder why that would be

if you're looking for a crack here, then you must be on some.

Phreaq is correct. Cd-burning problems are diversely related to drivers for/compatibility with your CD-burners as well as what other CD-burning software has managed to do to your system registry. The more burning applications installed, the more likely you are to have troubles.

Cd-burning can often stop functioning in Windows, even without the use of MM Software, hence all the Microsoft knowledgebase articles on the subject.

If you have a valid license key, please refer all CD-burning troubles directly to tech support for resolution:

http://www.mixmeister.com/support_morehelp.html

Or call, 1-888-800-0681

...and they will be more than happy to assist you, often with a very quick fix.