I bought an Audiobook MP3 cd from amazon (it's definitely genuine) Brilliance Audio. every time I try to put it into my external disc drive I get the Error message "The disk you attached cannot be read by this computer".
the drive is fine it plays dvds and cds
iMac 21.5″ 4K, macOS 13.7
If the vendor shipped audiobooks on CDs formatted with the HFS ("no +") filesystem – either Mac-only CDs, or hybrid Mac/Windows CDs – that could also be an issue. Apple removed all support for HFS ("no +") in Catalina, which apparently has caused some issues for people trying to read old Mac and hybrid CDs on some Macs.
If what you have is a hybrid Mac/PC CD containing non-DRMed MP3s, you might be able to use a Windows PC to copy the MP3 files off the CD, and onto a USB flash drive, for transfer to a Mac.
If the vendor shipped audiobooks on CDs formatted with the HFS ("no +") filesystem – either Mac-only CDs, or hybrid Mac/Windows CDs – that could also be an issue. Apple removed all support for HFS ("no +") in Catalina, which apparently has caused some issues for people trying to read old Mac and hybrid CDs on some Macs.
If what you have is a hybrid Mac/PC CD containing non-DRMed MP3s, you might be able to use a Windows PC to copy the MP3 files off the CD, and onto a USB flash drive, for transfer to a Mac.
FWIW, I found two links here on ASC and it seems Brilliance Audio CDs stopped being supported starting with macOS Catalina.
Likely it has to do with 32bit software was dropped when Catalina was introduced.
you can try to reach out to them
MP3 Audio book can't be read by iMac?
