Why can't Mojave read half my audio CD collection?
I use three different Macs. I have an M2 MBP, a Mac Mini 2012 running Mojave that's my main music iTunes library, and an old 2010 MBP running High Sierra I use at work for websurfing.
The two Macs at home just flat out refuse to read around half of my Audio CDs. For instance, History of Modern by OMD, released in 2010 and a brand new factory fresh copy, can't be read. I get 'This disc is unreadable by this Mac', or something. I can't mount it, can't do anything with it except eject it. I take the exact same CD with the exact same external DVDROM drive to work, and it mounts, reads and rips just fine in High Sierra on my 2010 MBP. I've even ripped CDs on my G4 iMac (Lamp) that I keep around just to run old PPC Music production apps, and share them across the LAN.
I've resorted to bringing my CDs to work, ripping them on my MBP 2010, putting them in a zip file and uploading them to my Google drive account. Then, I download them onto my Mac Mini 2010 and import them into my Mac Music/iTunes. For a company that prides itself on 'it just works', this is a massive kludge. I'll add that I don't have this issue at all with any of my Windows computers (with the same DVD-ROM drive, and same Audio CD).
I have a feeling that this is because Apple dropped support for some flavors of Joliet, or Orange Book CDs, or whatever. I can't figure out any rational reason why Apple would hamstring their own computers and customers like this, but clearly they did. I also have a hard time believing that nobody else on the planet seems to have this same issue. I've been Googling this for a couple years now, and I get nothing but 'maybe your CD drive is bad', or 'maybe the disc is scratched' super basic kinda suggestions. No, same audio CD, same external drive, the only difference is the OS.
Does anybody make extensions to Mojave to give it the ability to mount a simple audio CD?
MacBook Pro 13″
