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Mar 14, 2012 5:36 AM in response to Limnosby MTC123,In that preference it says to open with ITunes
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Mar 14, 2012 5:56 AM in response to MTC123by Limnos,There's nothing I can think of in a computer that would prevent music CDs and DVDs from displaying while allowing software CDs. Have you tried this with different commercial CDs? RW or burned CDs can be harder to read and it could be a sign your drive is starting to go.
DVDs use a different set of hardware in the drive from CDs.
Moving your music would have nothing to do with this.
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Mar 14, 2012 6:02 AM in response to Limnosby MTC123,I have tried CD's that had worked days ago in the computer as well as DVD's that had played.
It seems that when my ITunes catalog moved to My Passport as a storage device I lost the ability to play anything through ITunes.
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Mar 14, 2012 6:15 AM in response to MTC123by Limnos,iTunes never played DVDs.
iTunes plays audio CDs only.
Moving music would have no effect upon iTunes ability to play audio CDs. It is coincidental.
Do you really now mean "anything"? iTunes will not play any of your music you have in the iTunes library? That would be yet another matter altogether and nothing to do with CDs or DVDs.
Music CD and DVDs do not show up on the desktop (and these are commercially produced discs, not burned ones)? Only software CDs? If so, this is getting beyond me and is probably not even an iTunes question but a hardware one.
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Mar 14, 2012 7:20 AM in response to Limnosby MTC123,There may be no connection to the moving of the ITunes to the portable drive, but in my mind, this is when my computer went from reading a CD or a DVD and playing them to today where it will not play a CD or a DVD but will still read a software CD or a photo CD.
I appreciate the help, and the thought put into helping to resolve the problem.
I honestly do not know much about the inner workings of ITunes so I was not aware that the DVD attribute was not connected.
Thanks
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Mar 14, 2012 7:28 AM in response to MTC123by Limnos,The CDs it will not play are also commercial CDs? Have you tested this with many CDs or are we talking about just a few CDs used in testing so far? I have never heard of a case where what would and would not appear on the desktop was based upon content rather than the nature of the CD itself.
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Mar 14, 2012 8:19 AM in response to MTC123by varjak paw,This is from old thread about problems with mounting Audio CD's, but you can try it and see if it still helps (not all files will be present in all versions of Mac OS X):
First, try trashing this file:
~Home/Library/Preferences/CD Info.cidb
Log out of your user account and back in, then try your CD again.
If that doesn't work,
1. Go to System/Library/Caches and trash the folder com.apple.kernelcaches (com.apple.kext.caches in Mac OS X 10.6)
2. Go back to System/Library and trash the file Extensions.kextcache if it exists.
3. Restart.
Hope this helps.