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24" Imac "spits out" certain CD's anyone else experience this??

I have a almost year old 24" 2.16ghz core duo Imac that for some reason will not play certain pre-recorded music cd's. I tried to import Van Halen Best Of Volume 1 several times and it takes the disk and spins it up but never recognizes it and then ejects it all by itself. Am I missing something??? This is not isolated it did it with 5 or 6 discs so far as I am importing ALL my music cd's (400 or so) and there seems to be no common tie to it.

24" iMac Itronix XR-1 for field use, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Dec 1, 2008 8:23 PM

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Posted on Dec 1, 2008 10:05 PM

Hi Tim

If the Drive is just kicking out a few now and then, those CD's are probably a little warped, off center or out of round. If it's not reading them, then maybe the are scuffed or scratched and just need a good cleaning or polishing.

You could also use one of these methods to import those reluctant CD's into iTunes.

Borrow or buy a tray loading External CD/DVD drive.
Have someone with a drive that reads the CD's burn you a new copy.
Have someone with a drive that reads the CD's copy them to an external HD or flash-drive.

Not to make you feel bad, but my volume 1 copy was fine and heck if I was there, we could connect up one of my backup External HD drives to your iMac and import that Album to iTunes.
😉

Dennis
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den.thed
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Dec 1, 2008 10:05 PM in response to Tim Hartzell

Hi Tim

If the Drive is just kicking out a few now and then, those CD's are probably a little warped, off center or out of round. If it's not reading them, then maybe the are scuffed or scratched and just need a good cleaning or polishing.

You could also use one of these methods to import those reluctant CD's into iTunes.

Borrow or buy a tray loading External CD/DVD drive.
Have someone with a drive that reads the CD's burn you a new copy.
Have someone with a drive that reads the CD's copy them to an external HD or flash-drive.

Not to make you feel bad, but my volume 1 copy was fine and heck if I was there, we could connect up one of my backup External HD drives to your iMac and import that Album to iTunes.
😉

Dennis
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Dec 2, 2008 7:44 AM in response to Tim Hartzell

Worst part is this plays fine in my G5,G3 B&W, and both my Itronix laptops, as did all the others that gave this problem.. I also have a few scratched ones that will not play or import certain tracks but they play in other machines fine. I was thinking maybe it was some stupid copy protection feature on some of the discs but I think it just maybe some are old and really played a lot and maybe I will just copy to a USB stick and import that way if possible.
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24" Imac "spits out" certain CD's anyone else experience this??

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