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I started putting music from cds into itunes, then after about 8 cds my mac os x 10.2 stopped reading them, it will read other cds but not music ones.
Can anyone help?

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Brief diagnosis and practical checks that build on , and without repeating their suggestions.

A drive that mounts some discs but stops mounting audio/music CDs is usually one of three things: nonstandard or copy‑protected commercial discs, an optical‑drive hardware/laser issue (some drives read high‑contrast data discs but fail on pressed audio), or system‑level interference from third‑party CD utilities or corrupted settings. The next steps are focused, low‑risk ways to isolate which of those is happening.

  • Confirm disc type and scope: test the same music CD on a second machine and try other known good pressed audio CDs and burned audio CD‑Rs to see which categories fail.
  • Bypass the running OS: boot from a known good boot CD (hold C at startup) or use Safe Mode (hold Shift) to rule out third‑party extensions and prefs.
  • Reset simple firmware/state: reset PRAM (hold Command+Option+P+R through two chimes) to clear odd device detection problems.
  • Look for evidence: open About This Mac → More Info (System Profiler) to confirm the drive is seen and check Console/system logs for I/O errors when a CD is inserted.
  • Check for software interference: remove/uninstall any CD tools (Toast, packet‑writing utilities) or temporarily disable their kernel extensions.
  • Hardware checks: try a lens‑cleaning disc or an external USB CD drive. If an external drive reads the same CDs, the internal drive is the likely culprit.

If copy‑protection is confirmed (some early 2000s commercial discs used nonstandard layouts and can appear blank on some drives), the practical fallback is ripping on a different drive or capturing audio via an external CD player into the Mac’s line‑in (real‑time recording, lower fidelity). For targeted next steps, note the Mac model, the internal drive model, and whether the problem discs are factory pressed or burned.

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When I was using the Mac, I found that updateing seemed to fix everything.

Here is the combo update for 10.2 and should take you to 10.2.6

It looks like it improves audio and disk utility.

Hopefully that helps,

Starfish :o

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When I was using the Mac, I found that updateing seemed to fix everything.

Here is the combo update for 10.2 and should take you to 10.2.6

It looks like it improves audio and disk utility.

Hopefully that helps,

Starfish :o

Thanks Starfish, my mac is already 10.2.8 but maybe i should try to upgrade anyway

Member Avatar for kc0arf

Hello,

If you reboot, does the computer allow you to start reading music CD's again? I will need to try this... having only 333 MHz, I tend to just play the CD's from the stereo, or right off the disk instead of processing MP3's with cycles I really don't have to spare. But something else to try tonight. :)

Christian

Christian

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are you trying to import original cds? maybe you have these copy protected discs?

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