I've loaded a CD into an external drive. I can see the drive and the songs in the Finder, but Music won't play them. I also immediately get "error -54" when I try to import the songs. I'm on a MacBook Pro, OS Sonoma 14.6.1.
MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 14.6
Go to System Settings > Privacy & Security > Files and Folders > Music and make sure “Removable Volumes” is on. Reboot the Mac for good measure.
Go to System Settings > Privacy & Security > Files and Folders > Music and make sure “Removable Volumes” is on. Reboot the Mac for good measure.
That did the trick. Thanks.
On my M3 MacBook Air (OS 14.5), this sequence of steps doesn't work. When I click Files and Folders, two options appear: Spotify and Graphic Converter 12. I do not see Music or "Removable Volumes." Thanks for taking time to try to help me.
Carol Scott Zimmerman wrote:
On my M3 MacBook Air (OS 14.5), this sequence of steps doesn't work. When I click Files and Folders, two options appear: Spotify and Graphic Converter 12. I do not see Music or "Removable Volumes." Thanks for taking time to try to help me.
I get the impression from your other thread that you are looking for an optical drive and don't have one yet.
Just a guess – but you might actually need to get an external optical drive, and put an audio CD into it, and try to play a song (thus triggering an error or a permissions dialog) before a Files and Folders entry for Music appears.
Music won't play or import audio CD
