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mduser63 · Nov 2, 2004, 06:28 PM

I'm having a slight problem with my Mac. It's a PowerMac G4 400 MHz running the latest version of Panther. I have approximately 200 CDs. Out of those, there are 3 CDs that won't work in my Mac. When I put them in the CD-ROM drive, it simply waits a moment then ejects the disk. The titles that do this are:

Enya - A Day Without Rain
Paul Simon - Rythm of the Saints
Fleetwood Mac - Mystery to Me

All 3 are clean, commercial CDs without any scratches whatsoever. My dad has an identical copy of A Day Without Rain that works fine (both were purchased around the same time, so it's unlikely that they are different pressings). All three CDs also work fine in other CD players and computers. Anyone seen this problem before? If so, is there a fix? Like I said, all three CDs are in absolutely perfet shape, and they work fine in other players.

Thanks!

SSharon · Nov 3, 2004, 12:35 AM

I just had a similar pronlem with the sountrack to the movie troy. My lite-on could not read or mount the disk, while my superdrive read it the first time I put it in but was ripping very slowly and got stuck on the second song. Both drives are fine and the disk was clean like yours and was a commercial disk. It never ejected it for me though. I would also love some explanation for this.

GoGoReggieXPowars · Nov 3, 2004, 09:49 AM

At first I was going to ask if they were copy protected versions, but that may not be the problem if it's ejecting them right away!

mduser63 · Nov 3, 2004, 12:15 PM

I don't know about the Paul Simon CD, but I highly doubt the Enya and Fleetwood Mac CDs are copy protected. My dad has an identical copy of the Enya CD that works just fine, and the Fleetwood Mac CD seems to be a pretty old pressing (looks like late 80s to me). I just tried playing the Fleetwood Mac CD in a Windows machine, and iTunes plays it just fine, although I haven't tried ripping it.

SpaceMonkey · Nov 4, 2004, 10:27 AM

Probably just a disk that had some minor error when it was being made. Some drives are more sensitive to this than others. I once had a Cowboy Bebop DVD that my stand-alone DVD player ejected immediately on trying to play, but worked fine on a Lombard powerbook. I don't think there's any fix to this but to get another copy of the disk.

Mafia · Nov 4, 2004, 10:32 AM

Originally posted by mduser63:
I don't know about the Paul Simon CD, but I highly doubt the Enya and Fleetwood Mac CDs are copy protected. My dad has an identical copy of the Enya CD that works just fine, and the Fleetwood Mac CD seems to be a pretty old pressing (looks like late 80s to me). I just tried playing the Fleetwood Mac CD in a Windows machine, and iTunes plays it just fine, although I haven't tried ripping it.

rip it on the windows machine, then burn it onto a cd, and finally rip it onto the mac.

Or rip all three onto the windows and burn all 3 onto one mp3 cd and then rip it to the mac. if conserving cd's is an issue.

mduser63 · Nov 4, 2004, 08:25 PM

Well, I am going to rip them on the Windows machine and just move them over to the Mac, but I also think I'm going to try to take the Fleetwood Mac disc back as I just bought it on Tuesday and still have the receipt. I know the manager and owner of the record store where I bought it on a first name basis, and I doubt I'll have any trouble getting them to replace it for me. A disc that doesn't work in some drives just worries me. I want my CD collection to last for a long time, and I don't really want flaky discs in it. Thanks for the replies.